British Royals

The devastating secret that Princess Alice kept from her ailing husband, the Duke of Gloucester

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5th September 2023
The third son of King George V and Queen Mary, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was born on 31 March 1900. He was the first son of a monarch to be educated at school and went onto study at Eton College. His life was full of tragedy starting with not being able to continue his life with the woman he was having an affair with, Beryl Markham, and having to pay her and her husband hush-money for…
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The royal records broken by Queen Elizabeth II

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17th September 2022
It was a truly historic reign that may never be equalled again. The rule of Queen Elizabeth II spanned seventy years and saw Her Late Majesty write her name into the royal record books time and time again. In her long life, Queen Elizabeth II broke an exceptional number…
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Back to School with The Queen

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30th August 2022
The Queen has broken many records in her lifetime but one less known is that she and her sister, Princess Margaret, were the last to be educated by private tutors from home. Up to the age of seven, Princess Elizabeth was educated by her mother in reading and writing. With herfather becoming King, their governess Marion Crawford (an Edinburgh graduate), who was like a second mother to…
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Back to school with the Duchess of Cornwall

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27th August 2022
The Duchess of Cornwall first started her education at the age of five. A co-educational school in Sussex, Dumbrells School was the first of many schools for Camilla. Biographer Gyles Brandreth described Camilla’s childhood asan “Enid Blyton sort of…
Prince Philip

Prince Philip: 99 years of collecting the weird and the bizarre

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10th June 2020
Somewhere behind the closed doors of the Royal Residences lays the Duke of Edingburgh’s vast and unusual collections. Prince Philip has had 99-years to build his collections, and without a doubt, he has some of the very best in the world. As a child, the Duke recalled first collecting penknives. Fast forward nine decades and Philip now collects art as well as political cartoons that appear…
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Was Prince William's tragic death kept secret from the Duke of Gloucester?

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7th May 2020
The third son of King George V and Queen Mary, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was born on 31 March 1900. He was the first son of a monarch to be educated at school and went onto study at Eton College. His life was full of tragedy starting with not being able to continue his life with the woman he was having an affair with, Beryl Markham, and having to pay her and her husband hush-money for…
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