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Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant: your 90 second summer reading review

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24th July 2015
For the eight-hour flight to London, I thought why not read something easy to pass the time instead of the usual history or biographies I read. Figured let’s see how sensationalised the story of Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother’s Most Devoted Servant by Tom Quinn was. Why not waste just a meager amount of money on a book I already knew I had my…
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A Victorian Family Tree: the story of Queen Victoria's granddaughters

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23rd July 2015
‘As a rule, I like girls more’. The opinions of Queen Victoria on babies were quite clear. She might have had a long line of male heirs waiting to inherit her throne but her devotion to her granddaughters was telling. The women of the second generation of her descendants were of prime importance to the great Queen Empress. To the rest of the world she was a severe looking woman who ruled an…
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Stories of the Stuarts: The New Model Army

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22nd July 2015
The Battle of Naseby was the first proper battle of the New Model Army. The New Model Army was established by the Parliamentarians in February 1645 during the height of the English Civil War. They felt that a professional army would be more successful when pitted against the…
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Duchess of Cornwall visits RAF training station and Cornwall Air Ambulance on last day in Cornwall

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22nd July 2015
The Duchess of Cornwall attended two engagements following the Ocean Plastics Awareness Day she attended with The Duke of Cornwall earlier on Wednesday. Camilla ended this week’s visit to Cornwall with stops at RAF St Mawgan and Cornwall Air Ambulance. The first event had Camilla visit RAF St Mawgan. RAF St Mawgan is a training station and home to the Defence SERE Training Organisation.
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Lobster tagging, Chardonnay and clotted cream: Charles and Camilla's day on one of the Isles of Scilly

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21st July 2015
After their first day in Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall spent the day at St Mary’s, the Isle of Scilly’s largest island and gateway to the rest of the islands. Charles and Camilla’s day began with them attending the Island Fair in Hugh Town on St Mary’s. Embed from Getty Images Hugh Town is the hub comprising a group of shops, banks, churches, post office, cafés…
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