State & Ceremonial

Australia's Governor-General swears in monarchist Prime Minister

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21st September 2013
At a ceremony at Government House in Australia’s Capital City Canberra, on the 18th of september, the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO made Anthony ‘Tony’ Abbott the 28th Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. Mr Abbott, a British born politician and Rhodes Scholar, took the top job from former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a crushing victory…
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Prince Harry spends the night in -35°C Chamber

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19th September 2013
With that Autumn chill coming our way, most are trying to avoid the cold. Prince Harry, however, spent the entire day and night on Monday in a Cold Chamber. Prince Harry, who celebrated his 29th birthday last Sunday, spent time in the cold chamber in preparation for his…
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Dame Judi Dench supports a York burial for Richard III

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16th September 2013
Dame Judi Dench is asking for public support for Richard III’s remains to be returned from the University of Leicester in order to be buried in York. Dench, who was born in York and has also portrayed Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I in film, shares somewhat of a kinship, if you will, with the Royal family. Over 30,000 people have signed the online petition calling for the Government to bury the…
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Gold rush in Cornwall: The Queen and Duke of Cornwall settle 400-year-old feud

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15th September 2013
Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales have come to a settlement in regards to a long standing disagreement. The issue at hand was the rights of gold reserves which were discovered in a tin and copper mine in South Crofty, Cornwall in 2010. Advisers to both Her Majesty and Prince Charles thought perhaps that after a 400 year old dispute between the Crown Estate and Prince Charles’ Duchy of…
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Tudor Historian Leanda de Lisle talks to Royal Central

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13th September 2013
Leanda de Lisle is a very in demand author at the moment – not only does she write for BBC History Magazine, History Today, The Literary Review and the Spectator, as well as national newspapers, her latest book Tudor: The Family Story has just been released and by all accounts is doing fantastically well. So after my review on Leanda’s latest book I had a thought, maybe just maybe…
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