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Did someone "grease the brakes" in Diana, Princess of Wales's fatal crash?

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31st May 2017
‘Diana: 7 Days That Shook The Windsors’ looks back at the delicate situation that followed after Diana, Princess of Wales was killed 20 years ago. The Channel 5 programme reports that Her Majesty’s response to finding out Diana was in the Paris accident was: “Someone must have greased the brakes.” Royal biographer Ingrid Seward made the same claims in the 2015 book…
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Norwich Cathedral adding statues of Her Majesty and Duke of Edinburgh

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16th May 2017
To mark Queen Elizabeth’s 65th anniversary of her coronation next year, Norwich Cathedral is erecting statues of Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh. York-based sculptor, Charles Gurrey has been awarded the honour of carving the statues that will be placed by the figures by sculptor Gilbert Ledward RA of King George V, Queen Mary, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The statues are…
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Queen's horse snags win for 3rd year

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13th May 2017
The Queen was all smiles yesterday during the 3rd day of the 5-day Royal Windsor Horse Show; Her Majesty has attended the show which is held in virtually her own backyard at Windsor Park for the past 72 years. She spent the day with Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain…
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Queen Elizabeth must confront King of Bahrain at Windsor Horse Show

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13th May 2017
The rights groups Reprieve, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, Index, ECDHR and Bahrain Institute for Rights & Democracy are calling for Her Majesty to confront the King of Bahrain at the Windsor Horse Show over the “deterioration” of human rights in Bahrain. In a letter to The Queen, the rights groups said: “King Hamad … who sponsors four events in the…
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Navy signalman who passed messages between The Queen and Prince Philip during their courtship has died

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6th April 2017
Arthur Grout, a Navy signalman who served with the Duke of Edinburgh during the Second World War, passed away at the age of 93. Mr Grout used secret codes to pass messages between the then Lieutenant Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth in the early years of their courtship. Mr Grout grew up in Taplow, where he was an avid Scout. He picked up Morse code and semaphore (a system of sending messages by…
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