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The Great Royal Bake Off

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5th August 2015
It hasn’t even started yet and already Great British Bake Off fever has returned to the UK with just about everyone getting ready to go crazy again for meringues, macaroons and marble cake.   But while the twelve new stars of the BBC One show will no doubt win legions of fans – providing there’s no more Baked Alaska in the bin – the Royal Family have shown off plenty of…
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History

Profiling Lady Jane Grey's nine days as Queen

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5th August 2015
Though her reign is disputed by many, Lady Jane Grey is undoubtedly this country’s shortest reigning monarch. Jane is popularly known as the ‘Nine Days Queen’ because of her curtailed reign. It is often a view of many she was a victim of her cousin, Edward…
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Planting for the future: Prince Charles plans for Britain's apples

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3rd August 2015
It might be August and the height of summer but already minds are turning to bringing in the harvest and the apple haul this year will be rather varied – thanks to The Prince of Wales. Charles has been growing a wide range of rare and historic apples to help try and preserve the fruit. Prince Charles is looking to protect and preserve some rare and historic varieties of apple The Prince has…
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Insight

How much do the Cambridges cost the taxpayer?

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2nd August 2015
Every year, the finances of both The Queen and the Prince of Wales are released, in great detail, to the media and the public. While figures show that the Prince of Wales is a net contributor to public funds, the funding arrangements of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge…
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The stories of Queen Victoria's granddaughters: Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

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1st August 2015
‘A supremely honest woman, full of courage’. Those words, written about Queen Victoria’s second granddaughter, perhaps sum her up better than anything else.Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine lived through many tragedies but never gave up. Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, second left in this image, was the second granddaughter of Queen Victoria This princess who called Queen Victoria…
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History

Stories of the Stuarts: Oak Apple Day

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1st August 2015
Oak Apple Day was a formal public holiday celebrated in England on the 29th May in recognition of the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 following ‘The Commonwealth’ of England and rule of Oliver Cromwell from 1649. It is so named ‘Oak Apple Day&#8217…
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Blacksmiths, butchers and prison: Prince Charles spends the day in Gloucestershire

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28th July 2015
The Prince of Wales visited The Old Prison in Northleach on Tuesday meeting volunteers and members of The Friends of the Cotswolds. The site was built in the 1790s as the Northleach House of Correction, one of four houses of correction in Gloucestershire. Built in the 1790s, The Old Prison was at the time the example of a how a prison could encourage adequate care and rehabilitation of prisoners…
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