Royal News

The Princess of Wales launches new childhood programme at National Portrait Gallery

It must’ve been a sight to see the Princess of Wales hop off a London minibus and walk, with a group of schoolchildren, to the National Portrait Gallery! Catherine, joined by students from All Souls CE Primary School, launched the newest project from her Shaping Us initiative at the National Portrait Gallery—of which she’s patron—an interactive emotional and social skill-building…
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Spain

Princess Leonor lunches as naval training takes a regal turn

Princess Leonor’s naval training took a regal turn when she joined an official luncheon aboard the ship that she will call home for the next five months. The future queen of Spain, who departed for naval training aboard the training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano a couple of weeks ago, met with local authorities from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during a stopover in the area. Spain’s…
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Features

The death of a king in a modern era: how George V's passing was announced to the world

It was not an auspicious start to the new year of 1936 for King George V. The previous year had seen ‘Grandpa England’, as Queen Elizabeth II once called her grandfather, feted during his Silver Jubilee, but long periods of poor health had plagued the King, and he would not live to see February. By 15 January, he was bedridden with a cold from which he’d never recover. His favourite…
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Royal News

Sophie serves at UK's first social supermarket

The Duchess of Edinburgh has been shopping, popping into the United Kingdom’s first social supermarket to learn more about food insecurity and the community initiative to help curb it. At Community Shop’s Lambeth location, Sophie saw firsthand how the social…
Sweden

Crown Princess Victoria begins next stage of officer training

Crown Princess Victoria has begun the next phase of her officer training. The Swedish Royal Court shared new photos of the future queen of Sweden with fellow officers at the Swedish National Defence University and revealed that she has now begun, as of 13 January, the course in basic military strategy. While Crown Princess Victoria has previous military training, spending 2003 at the Swedish…
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