Royal News

Infanta Sofia chooses symbolic outfit for first solo engagement

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14th December 2024
Infanta Sofia of Spain visited an exhibition of work from the first annual photography competition to bear her name and made a strong and touching statement with her wardrobe choices for the day.  Sofia, 17, attended the temporary exhibition for the competition which was launched to help celebrate and showcase Spanish monuments, historical spaces, and works of arts.  Infanta Sofia…
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Queen Elizabeth II

A new addition to the family for Christmas speech

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13th December 2024
As we dive into different Royal Christmas Broadcasts each day in December, we are able to see both personal and public moments marked for the sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II marked moments of family joy and public loss in 2015.  The spring of 2015 had brought great family joy with the arrival of Princess Charlotte. Her proud great grandmother reflected on that in her Christmas speech, noting…
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Norway

King Harald leads Norway's royals at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

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11th December 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize is always presented in Oslo and this year King Harald and Queen Sonja were joined by Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit at Oslo City Hall for the ceremony.  The Norwegian king awarded the prestigious prize to a Japanese group, Nihon Hidankyo, that is working towards a nuclear-free planet.  The group, whose full name is the Japan Confederation of A and…
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Features

A Commonwealth milestone marked in Christmas broadcast

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11th December 2024
A very special anniversary for a country with a very special place in the heart of Queen Elizabeth II took centre stage in one of her Christmas broadcasts. In 1967, Canada celebrated its centenary. The Canadian Crown was established as separate (as were the other dominions) with the Statute of Westminster in 1931.  As Queen of Canada, Queen Elizabeth, visited the country in the summer of…
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