British Royals

The 'especially lovely' Christmas celebration that won Queen Camilla's heart

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24th December 2023
It’s one of the most heartwarming events on the holiday calendar, and Queen Camilla continued her tradition of welcoming children supported by Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity to Clarence House to help her decorate for Christmas. The Queen was overheard telling her special guests, “This is an especially lovely occasion.” During their…
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Belgium

Belgium's future queen visits hospital named in her honour

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22nd December 2023
Princess Elisabeth returned to the site of her first-ever royal engagement for a Christmas reception this week. The future queen of the Belgians attended a holiday reception at the Princess Elisabeth Hospital in Ghent, which she officially opened on her first solo royal engagement in September 2011, at the age of nine years old. During her visit, Princess Elisabeth was given a tour of the…
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Monaco

The complex prince who helped make modern Monaco: Louis II

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17th December 2023
He was a complex man with great passions who helped transform the nation he ruled. During his time as Sovereign Prince of Monaco, Louis II oversaw a period of great cultural strides and dark days for the principality. Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi was born 12 July 1870, the only child of Prince Albert I of Monaco and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton. His parents separated and…
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Queen Camilla

Queen Camilla to start her own podcast

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16th December 2023
Queen Camilla is bringing her love of literature to a new platform in the new year: the Queen plans to launch a Reading Room tie-in podcast. In an Instagram reel, The Queen’s Reading Room announced that their brand-new podcast will be a “place for book lovers—and those who wish they loved literature a little more—to be inspired by the bookish confessions of global literary heroes” and…
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