King Charles III

Things are starting to bloom this month as Duchess of Cornwall accepts garden presidency

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1st September 2015
The Duchess of Cornwall has recently agreed to become president of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire. The Duchess of Cornwall is pictured here visiting the Big Lunch Project at the Skainos Centre in East Belfast in May 2015. Founded in 1953 by nurseryman Harold Hillier, it began as the Hillier Arboretum after he acquired Jermyns House and its grounds. The gardens are a charitable trust…
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All That Glitters: The Legacy of a Georgian Duchess

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1st September 2015
The year was 1774 and seventeen-year-old Lady Georgiana Spencer was a blushing bride. All of England whispered about the most advantageous marriage. Lady Georgiana’s groom was none other than the much-sought-after Duke of Devonshire, considered the most attractive bachelor…
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Royal Portraiture: Propaganda Painting

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31st August 2015
Today, images of the Royal Family are everywhere. As technology advances, we can instantly retrieve images of any member of the Royal Family, both in private and outperforming their royal duties. Now, because of this, the members of the royal family can be recognized…
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Stories of the Stuarts: Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart

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30th August 2015
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart was the second child of King James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Born on 28th June 1692 at St-Germain-en-Laye, Louisa was referred to as The Princess Royal by her father’s supporters, the Jacobites. James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart. The newborn baby was christened as Louisa Maria, Louisa in honour of King Louis XIV in response to the…
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Stories of the Stuarts: A Stuart Christmas feast

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29th August 2015
Christmas is just that time of the year where it is perfectly acceptable to eat and drink as much as you see fit. That theory even stood during the reign of the House of Stuart, probably in a bigger sense than it does today. King Charles I and his family spent several months…
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The stories of Queen Victoria's granddaughters: Princess Marie of Hesse

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28th August 2015
Looking at some of the many photographs taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria would lose several grandsons including Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence as well as Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia, the sons of her eldest…
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A wave of applause for The Queen at a river based tribute marking her historic reign

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26th August 2015
People in London are being encouraged to line the banks of the Thames on September 9th 2015 to cheer The Queen as she becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history. Organisers of a special flotilla of boats which will take to the river to mark the occasion are asking residents and visitors alike to stand along the Thames and clap The Queen into history on this very special day. The…
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