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New photos of Princess Charlotte released to mark first day at nursery school

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8th January 2018
Princess Charlotte started her first day of nursery school this morning at Willcocks Nursery School near Kensington Palace, and to mark the occasion, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released two photos of the young princess. On Twitter, Kensington Palace said, “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share two photographs of Princess Charlotte at Kensington Palace this…
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Fact v. Fiction in The Crown's second season

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1st January 2018
The Crown returned for a second season on Netflix earlier last month, and dramatised The Queen’s reign from 1955 to roughly 1964, shortly after the birth of Prince Edward. Today we’re going to separate the fact from fiction in The Crown’s second season. Please do not…
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Top 5 outgoing State Visits from Queen Elizabeth II

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21st December 2017
Queen Elizabeth has undertaken 94 official State Visits during her reign, plus two State Visits in her capacity as Queen of Canada (she visited the United States twice in the ‘50s). A State Visit is when a foreign head of state is invited to visit a country by that country’s head of state. State Visits differ from Official Visits, as an Official Visit is when high-ranking government officials…
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Prince Harry interviews Barack Obama for the BBC

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18th December 2017
Prince Harry will interview former US President Barack Obama when he guest edits Today for BBC Radio 4 on 27 December, and a sneak preview of their warm up was released yesterday. “Do I have to put on a British accent?” Obama asks him. Prince Harry replies in the negative, but tells him that “If you start using long pauses between answers, you’re going to get ‘the face.’” The Prince…
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All the Royals Who Live at Kensington Palace

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10th December 2017
Kensington Palace was, in its original form, a Jacobean mansion built in 1605, and bought by William and Mary in 1689. They directed Sir Christopher Wren to renovate and expand the building, and Wren added a three-storey pavilion at each corner to create more space for the Royal Family. The Palace was, until the time of George II, the favoured house of the monarch. In its illustrious history, it…
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