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Prince Charles' 'What's Stopping You?' event held in London

The Prince’s Trust held an event for youth unemployment in east London?. The Prince’s Trust recently held its “What’s Stopping You?” charity event for young people in East London. The gathering to find ways to help unemployed youth was held at The Prince’s Trust head office. Attendee Chelsea Murray Clarke who is 23, from Tower Hamlets and a recent graduate has tirelessly applied…
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Queen focuses on reflection in annual Christmas Message

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmqoV-0RyI] The Christmas Message from Her Majesty The Queen has been broadcast in the UK and Commonwealth countries, with Her Majesty focussing on a need to reflect on the years gone by. The Queen, in a yellow dress in the blue drawing room of Buckingham Palace, makes the broadcast annually, typically with a strong religious message. In addition to this…
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Titles on Downton Abbey explained

Downton Abbey is, without doubt, one of the most consistently popular TV shows produced in recent times. The show, which gives a look at the life of the Crawleys, a fictional aristocratic family who run and own the Downton estate. Set in the early 1900s, the show gives a…
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Judith of Francia: Twice Queen of Wessex

Anglo-Saxon queens receive very little attention, with it commonly believed that there were no pre-Conquest queens in England. Such an assertion is patently untrue, as the lives of early queens, such as Elfrida, Emma of Normandy and Edith Godwin show. All three of these women lived late in the Anglo-Saxon period. A century before the first of these three women became queen, another woman – in…
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A guide to the Order of the British Empire

Two times a year (at The Queen’s Official Birthday and on New Year’s Day), lists of those set to receive honours from The Queen are published by the Government. The most common order which those being honoured are admitted to is the Order of the British Empire, instituted by George V in 1917 as a way of marking civilian achievement. The Order of the British Empire has 6 ranks, 2 of…
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