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One of Rome's most beautiful buildings just played host to King Charles and Queen Camilla and it already has a royal past

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10th April 2025
King Charles and Queen Camilla’s historic wedding anniversary portraits were taken in a place already packed with royal history.The portraits were taken at Villa Wolkonsky, the current official residence of the British Ambassador to Italy. The gorgeous building has its own royal connections. Chris Getty/ Buckingham PalacePrincess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya, a Russian…
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The discreet princess who's celebrating a big milestone

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10th April 2025
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands turns 18 today – meaning all three children of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are now officially adults. However, the celebrations for the third in line to the Dutch throne will be low key, in keeping with a princess who has managed to remain quietly under the radar for much of her life.Princess Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Inés was born in the…
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The Princess of Wales made this all diamond brooch very famous - and she's not the only royal to love it

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7th April 2025
The Royal Family has quite the collection of diamonds but there are some pieces that we see worn by several members and that includes the Diamond Maple Leaf Brooch. King George VI gifted this brooch to his wife, Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), ahead of their trip to Canada in the spring of 1939. With a second major war looming, the couple’s trip to Canada was more important than…
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Queen Victoria's tragic aunt who fought to escape a miserable royal marriage

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7th April 2025
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are considered by many to have had of the most successful of all royal marriages. However, many of their relatives were not so lucky in love. Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the sister of Victoria, Queen Victoria’s mother, and Ernest, Prince Albert’s father. Given that she came from a relatively small German duchy, she made what should have…
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