Queen Camilla

A fresh focus on literacy for Queen Camilla

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10th July 2024
Queen Camilla visited Moreland Primary School on Tuesday to see a Coronation Library in place.The Queen was out to celebrate a milestone for the National Literacy Trust’s Coronation Library campaign, a part of the Libraries for Primaries initiative that hopes to make sure every UK school has a dedicated library. Her Majesty met with teachers, pupils, and community members at…
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Features

The Palais-Royal: from a prince of the church to revolution

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9th July 2024
While we often associate the French royals with the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre Palace, they owned far more than that over the centuries. The Palais-Royal in Paris began as a cardinal’s palace but made its way into royal hands.The Palais-Royal is in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on Rue Saint-Honoré. Architect Jacques Lemercier was commissioned in the late 1620s to create a…
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King Charles III

Tradition of the Ceremony of the Keys welcomes Charles III to his Scottish kingdom

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3rd July 2024
The King took part in a historic ceremony to begin Holyrood Week in Edinburgh. The Ceremony of the Keys is held in the Forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse whenever the Monarch arrives. This time it was for the week that King Charles and Queen Camilla traditionally spend in Scotland each July. In the ceremony, the Lord Provost offered the keys of the city on a velvet pillow with this…
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Denmark

Surprise guests join King Frederik and Queen Mary in Greenland

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2nd July 2024
King Frederik and Queen Mary set out this weekend on their first trip to Greenland since the accession in January this year. And while the couple have now been joined by two special guests. The King and Queen’s two younger children, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine, joined their parents on Sunday on a boat trip to Qeqertarsuaq. The family visited a new Arctic sound station that will be…
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