The Yorks

Hospital staff 'disciplined' over Prince Andrew mystery

Staff working at at a Belfast hospital have been ‘disciplined’ after a plaque unveiled by the Duke of York went missing. According to the BBC, a plaque, which was unveiled by the Duke in 1986, went missing back on 2022. Prince Andrew visited Belfast City Hospital and unveiled the plaque to commemorate the official opening of the new hospital building. However, at around the…
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If you find the right mattress you can sleep like a king!

If, like me, you sleep for eight hours a day, you spend a total of 2,920 hours a year asleep – or more scarily 122 days of the year! With those figures in mind, surely there is not a single piece of furniture in the home more important than the mattress. I had old my mattress for around ten years. It was getting lumpy, and sunken. So when Simba Mattresses called asking me to try out…
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British Royals

The husband of a princess who refused a title in an effort to remain a ''commoner''

Back in April 1963, the country stopped to watch the grand wedding of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, Princess Alexandra of Kent, to businessman Angus Ogilvy. The couple met during a ball at Luton Hoo in 1955, and seven years later, Buckingham Palace announced they were engaged to be married. Despite being the second son of the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Angus was seen as being…
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