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Prince Charles and Camilla to host Canadian reception ahead of tour

Over 100 Canadians will be in attendance at the reception and will include guests from business, sport, entertainment, charity and the media. The Canadian High Commissioner, His Excellency Gordon Campbell, will also be present. As reported by Royal Central last month, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit Canada from 18th – 21st May 2014. The trip will have the Royal couple…
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Tower of London to mark WW1 centenary

Beginning on August 5th and ending on Remembrance Day (11th November), the dry moat will be turned into a sea of red as each poppy will mark the British or Colonial soldier killed during the conflict. There will be 888,246 poppies will be laid in the moat to represent the lives lost. The poppies are currently in production by 50 potters at the Derby studio of Paul Cummins. Cummins was asked to…
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Duchess of Cornwall to visit North Yorkshire and Staffordshire

ince the tragic death of her brother, Mark Shand. The first of the visits will take place at RAF Leeming in Gatenby. The Duchess of Cornwall as Honorary Air Commodore, will visit the RAF base to officially open the new Station Medical Centre. On 2nd October 2008, Camilla was appointed Honorary Air Commodore. Work began on RAF Leeming in 1938 as part of the RAF expansion scheme. 10 Squadron were…
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Review of episode one of The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

Royal Central, we were delighted to have the chance to interview Historic Royal Palaces’ Chief Curator Dr Lucy Worsley last month about her upcoming television series on the first Georgian Kings of Great Britain. Last night, BBC Four aired the first episode of the series The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, which has been produced in light of the 300th anniversary of…
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