Royal News

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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Features

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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Denmark

Queen Mary teams up with Brigitte Macron to tackle bullying in Paris

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3rd April 2025
Queen Mary of Denmark has kept a busy schedule throughout the State Visit to France, with joint engagements with King Frederik and solo outings. In a school visit with Brigitte Macron, the Danish queen once again tackled the issue of bullying.  Queen Mary visited Ecole Maternelle Dussoubs to meet with primary school children. The school has joined an anti-bullying programme, Free of Bullying…
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British Royals

The engagement ring of a queen: Camilla's stunning diamond sparkler

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1st April 2025
When it was announced in February 2005 that the then-Prince of Wales had proposed to Camilla Parker-Bowles, ITN proclaimed that he had used “a ring worth waiting for”. The King and Queen are about to mark twenty years of marriage and the glittering ring put the sparkling seal on their romance. Charles proposed with a ring that has a long family history. Historians believe that the ring…
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