British Royals

How many royals does it take to plant a tree? Four and counting appears to be the answer....

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2nd May 2025
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden have joined King Charles and Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle to fulfil a promise made at the time of the Coronation. This very royal quartet met at Windsor Castle after King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia offered the gift of a tree to mark the 2023 Coronation and popped in on their friend and relation to help plant it. The tree is a Swedish oak…
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Denmark

King Frederik speaks of love of Greenland and is more than prepared to show it

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30th April 2025
Although his trip was delayed by a day, King Frederik of Denmark headed to Greenland and spoke of how important it is to him as he visited some of its most important areas.The trip comes amidst an ongoing row involving loud statements from US President, Donald Trump, about annexing Greenland which is an autonomous country in the realm of Denmark.King Frederik arrived in Nuuk, the capital…
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Luxembourg

Did someone say diamonds? This towering tiara packs mystery and history

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30th April 2025
It’s a tower of a tiara and it has a back story to match its might. The ‘Empire Tiara’ of Luxembourg is a huge collection of diamonds but despite being pretty hard to miss, no one is completely sure where it came from in the first place.This impressive tiara was first recorded in 1829, though it may be older. It is over ten centimetres tall and almost 20 centimetres across…
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Royal News

Another first for Queen Mary of Denmark

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29th April 2025
Queen Mary of Denmark has tackled another first as consort as she appears in a new film for an exhibition at her royal palace.Mary is in a film based on the life of another woman once married to a King of Denmark called Frederik. But, unlike Mary, this historic figure…
Features

The niece of a pope who became Queen of France

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28th April 2025
She was the mother of three kings, the wife of another and the niece of a powerful pope and those links aren’t even the most interesting things about a woman who ended up having a whole age named after her. She’s a controversial figure, even now, but her impact on royal history is undeniable.Catherine de Medici was born into the famous aristocratic Florentine family on 13 April…
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