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The ultimate royal image maker to take starring role in new Buckingham Palace exhibition

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5th July 2023
The Royal Collection Trust is staging a landmark exhibition this winter focusing on some of the most impressive portraits from the Tudor period. “Holbein at the Tudor Court” will showcase many of the surviving works from Tudor artist Hans Holbein. Hans Holbein the Younger was a German-Swiss painter and woodcarver who originally trained under his father, Hans Holbein the Elder. He rose to…
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The last king crowned with the Honours of Scotland

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1st July 2023
King Charles III will be presented with the Honours of Scotland at a Service of Thanksgiving at St. Giles’s Cathedral on 5 July. However, King Charles II was the last monarch to be crowned with the Honours of Scotland in 1651. King Charles II was crowned in England in 1661 but was crowned in Scotland a decade earlier. On 1 January 1651, Charles was crowned as head of Scotland at Scone…
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The Crown of Scotland

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1st July 2023
The Crown of Scotland will be presented to King Charles III in a special ceremony in Edinburgh. It will mark a milestone moment in his reign. Although this won’t be a coronation, it will be a recognition of his role as King of Scotland and the Crown involved has a…
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The home of the Honours of Scotland

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1st July 2023
King Charles III will be presented with the Honours of Scotland at a National Service of Thanksgiving that will be held at St. Giles’s Cathedral in Edinburgh. It will be an historic moment in his reign. The Honours are colloquially known as the Scottish Crown Jewels. Aside…
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What is the Order of the Thistle?

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18th June 2023
This week, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles had appointed Queen Camilla to the Order of Thistle. The Order is the highest chivalric order in Scotland. King James VII founded the first confirmed iteration of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle in 1687. He claimed that he was reviving an earlier order; it may have been an order under King James III (who reigned from…
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What is the Order of the Garter?

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16th June 2023
King Charles will preside over his first investiture ceremony for the Order of the Garter this June. It is the oldest chivalric order in Great Britain.  King Edward III founded the Most Noble Order of the Garter. It was officially founded in 1348 but may date back to…
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What is Trooping the Colour?

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14th June 2023
King Charles III will preside over his first Trooping of Colour as Sovereign on June 17th 2023. What is this historic ceremony held every year? Trooping the Colour is a centuries-old ceremony where a specific regiment presents its colours to the Monarch. The…
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The jewels that caused a rift between Queen Victoria and her uncle Ernest

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11th June 2023
Although Queen Victoria inherited the throne in the United Kingdom, and during her reign, the British Empire gained a vast amount of territory, she was still unable to inherit the throne of Hanover as a woman. Her uncle, Ernest-August, became King of Hanover instead. And Victoria and Ernest-August had a lengthy battle over the Crown Jewels that once belonged to Queen Charlotte.  When Queen…
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