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Coronation chicken and Swedish princess cakes: food inspired by royalty

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12th January 2022
With the calls for a Platinum Pudding to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this summer, let’s take a look back at a few other foods inspired by and named for royalty. Coronation Chicken This appropriately named chicken dish was created by chefs Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume at the Le Cordon Bleu School in London in time for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. The…
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The Netherlands

A look back at the Dutch royal year

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30th December 2021
January Our coverage of the Dutch Royal Family began with a look back at the wedding of Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, continued with the news that King Willem-Alexander would accept the Prime Minister’s resignation, and also included the report that Countess Eloise (daughter of Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien) was writing a book. King Willem-Alexander and Queen…
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Prince & Princess of Wales

A look back at the Cambridges' year

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30th December 2021
January Our coverage of William and Kate began with birthday tributes as Kate celebrated her 39th birthday on 9 January. We looked at some of her best style moments and shared 39 facts about the future queen. In phone calls with NHS frontline workers, William revealed…
Denmark

A look back at the Danish royal year

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29th December 2021
January Queen Margrethe began the New Year with a poignant speech, urging us all to “Not lose heart” over the ongoing pandemic. As the Danish Royal Family is renowned for their New Year’s and New Year’s Eve events, the team here at Royal Central looked back at…
Norway

A look back at the Norwegian royal year

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29th December 2021
January King Harald set the tone for the year with his New Year’s Eve speech, noting: “The hope will carry us all into 2021.” Sadly, 2021 began on a sad note for the Norwegian Royal Family. They paid a visit to Gjerdrum, the site of a devastating landslide shortly before the New Year. But history was also made in January 2021: King Harald marked 30 years on the Norwegian…
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