British Royals

Queen Camilla pays tribute at the Field of Remembrance

The Queen has opened the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey and paid tribute by planting a simple wooden cross bearing a poppy. Her Majesty placed the cross and bowed her head in an act of remembrance before walking backwards from the tribute, refusing to turn away from it in another solemn moment of commemoration. Queen Camilla took part in the short ceremony which officially opened…
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British Royals

The royal bride who refused to wear white for her wedding

It was a low key royal wedding, set against a backdrop of family illness and impending drama. But the marriage of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, on November 6th 1935, began a royal partnership that would become a bedrock for the House of Windsor as it faced some of its most challenging times. Prince Henry, third son of King George V and Queen Mary, had…
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The secret queen who was removed from history

She was the long dead widow who was used by a king to overthrow his own nephew and yet her name is all but forgotten today. Eleanor Butler was the woman who helped change the royal history of England forever and almost brought one of its most famous dynasties to disaster before they had even secured the throne. But was she also Queen of England? Eleanor never claimed a crown for herself but as…
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