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The first American Princess of Monaco

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2nd September 2022
American by birth, hugely popular and credited with helping turn Monaco from a forgotten principality into a European hotspot – but this isn’t the story of Grace Kelly. Almost seven decades before her famous marriage to Prince Rainier III, another US born princess had taken Monaco by storm and transformed its fortunes. However, there was no fairytale ending for Alice Heine, the first…
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Flag flies at half mast at Diana's ancestral home on the 25th anniversary of her death

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31st August 2022
The flag at the ancestral home of Diana, Princess of Wales was lowered to half mast on August 31st 2022, the 25th anniversary of her death.Exactly a quarter of a century after Diana died, following a car crash in Paris, the flag at Althorp House, Northamptonshire was lowered.Diana is buried on an island in the Oval Lake at Althorp. The estate has been the ancestral home of the Spencer…
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The royal woman who went from hidden queen to founder of history's most famous dynasty

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25th August 2022
For a woman who founded one of the most famous royal dynasties in British history, she is surprisingly enigmatic. Katherine of Valois was the first Kate to be Queen of England and yet much of the modern imagining of her comes from her fleeting appearance in the works of Shakespeare. But what little we do know seems to indicate that the ‘fair Kate’ of Henry V was every bit as ambitious…
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Why is the Princess Royal called Anne?

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25th August 2022
A is for Anne but why did the Queen’s only daughter end up with a name that, at the time, wasn’t a usual one for members of the Royal Family?The answer can perhaps best be found in the summer of 1930 and the arrival of a princess. In August that year, the…
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The exotic precedent set by a Monarch for appointing a Prime Minister away from Buckingham Palace

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16th August 2022
As the Queen prepares to appoint the fifteenth Prime Minister of her reign, the question of where she will welcome them is much discussed. Her Majesty is now in Balmoral for her annual summer break but is understood to be planning to return to London to accept Boris Johnson’s resignation and then ask his successor, chosen by the Conservative party, to form a new government. However, there is…
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