British Royals

The Queen sends her best wishes to the Channel Islands on the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day

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9th May 2020
The Queen has sent her best wishes to the Channel Islands on the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day. This year marks the75 years since the Channel Islands were liberatedfrom German occupying forces. In two separate messages to the people of Jersey and Guernsey, Her Majesty praised the good spirit of Islanders on a day that was supposed to be full of celebration. Her…
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Palaces & Buildings

Red Arrows fly over an abandoned Buckingham Palace to commemorate VE Day

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8th May 2020
The RAF Red Arrows flew on over an eerily quiet Buckingham Palace on Friday morning to mark Victory in Europe Day. In what was supposed to be a day of huge celebration with thousands of people lining the streets, instead the only people out to see the flypast were journalists and photographers. It had been agreed that news of the flypast should not be made public until after the event…
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King Charles III

VE Day: Charles and Camilla lead remembrance commemorations as the nation falls silent

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8th May 2020
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have led the nation in remembrance 75-years after Winston Churchill announced the end of the Second World War. Charles and Camilla marked VE Day commemorations from their home in Scotland as the nation fell silent for two minutes of silence. Both the Prince and Duchess laid wreaths at the war memorial outside of their home with just a lone…
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Features

Could Camilla stop Kate from becoming Queen?

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7th May 2020
In the years ahead, both the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duchess of Cambridge will act as consorts to their husbands when they one day ascend to the throne. It is a well established constitutional convention that the wife of a King is styled as Queen Consort. The last…
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Boris Johnson becomes the first British Prime Minister to divorce while in office in 250 years

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6th May 2020
Boris Johnson has become the first Prime Minister to divorce while in office since the Duke of Grafton back in 1769. Mr Johnson’s divorce to his second wife, Marina Wheeler, was made official shortly before the lockdown came into force across the United Kingdom. On February 29, the Prime Minister announced that he was engaged to his current partner, Carrie Symonds, and also that the…
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