British Royals

The King movingly credits early diagnosis for his positive recovery

The King has said that early detection was “crucial” in his own cancer treatment, crediting swift diagnosis with allowing doctors to reduce the intensity of his medical regime in the new year. The monarch’s unusually personal disclosure came in a recorded message for Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer campaign, in which he urged millions of Britons to take up screening invitations they may…
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Goodbye Buckingham Palace? The Royal Family are slowly but surely abandoning London

The proposed relocation of the Royal Mews may seem like a simple matter of logistics, but symbolically it speaks to something far larger: the Royal Family’s gradual retreat from the capital. For an institution so tightly bound to the image of Buckingham Palace, every shift away from London raises the same question – are the royals quietly leaving their historic heart behind? Buckingham…
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Royal News

Camilla’s homage to Jilly Cooper as she steps behind the scenes of Rivals

Queen Camilla traded palace corridors for studio gantries on Monday as she toured the Bristol set of Rivals, the glossy 1980s television drama devised by Dame Jilly Cooper that has become one of Disney+’s most successful British productions. The Queen spent several hours moving between sound stages, costume workrooms and editing suites, observing filming for the show’s second series and…
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Outrage and shock after Prince William's trees are deliberately poisoned

A criminal investigation is under way after a cluster of young willow trees planted on Prince William’s Dartmoor estate were deliberately poisoned with a powerful herbicide – an act described by conservationists as “sabotage” and “deeply disturbing”. The story, first reported by The Guardian, concerns a restoration scheme on Duchy of Cornwall land designed to stabilise peat…
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