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Why didn't Queen Victoria have a Silver Jubilee?

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9th July 2022
Victoria was the monarch who invented jubilees as we know them. The celebrations of 1887 and 1897 are among the most famous events of royal history and helped shape her legacy. But our modern minds assume there must also have been a silver version, for that is the pattern we are used to. Elizabeth II, the ultimate Jubilee Monarch, began her unprecedented run of anniversary celebrations in 1977 as…
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The wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the tragedy that changed their lives forever

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8th July 2022
It was a quiet country affair, far removed from the pomp and ceremony we’ve come to expect from royal weddings. The setting was an English parish church, the regal guest list only filled a couple of pews, and the bride walked in several minutes late carrying her own train to protect it from the rain. The marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, on 8 July 1972, was a royal wedding with a…
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Did the Jubilee booing prove to be the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson?

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5th July 2022
It’s only a month since the Jubilee but it seems the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of The Queen’s reign could be about to produce an unexpected legacy. The political career of Boris Johnson is teetering on the brink this evening and as Her Majesty contemplates the possibility of appointing the 15th Prime Minister of her rule, could it be that her Jubilee was the beginning of the…
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A new version of God Save The Queen grabs the headlines, but is it time to change the national anthem?

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3rd July 2022
It’s been sung thousands of times in the last weeks as the Platinum Jubilee celebrations took over the country but the British national anthem just got a very special makeover and it’s got plenty of people talking.Ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Eurovision star Sam Ryder performed ‘God Save The Queen’ and produced a rendition that took plenty by…
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