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The royal events we can look forward to in 2022

It promises to be a very busy royal year with plenty to look forward to over the coming twelve months. There’s not one but two jubilees as well as a host of big birthdays and wedding anniversaries and that’s before anyone steps outside a palace and gets busy. As we cast our minds to the year to come, the Royal Central team pick the moments they can’t wait to share in the royal…
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The Royal 2021: the moments that linger

It was, once more, a royal year like no other. As 2021 winds to a close, fading to nothing more than memories, many moments remain, but some linger more than others. The past twelve months have proved challenging for everyone, royalty included, and amongst the joy has been…
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A year of sadness, yes, but 2021 was far from another 'annus horribilis' for the Windsors

It’s a well worn phrase, coined by the Monarch herself. As the dust settled on a truly terrible year for the Royal Family in 1992, The Queen described it as an ‘’annus horribilis’’. Thirty years on, it’s been used several times to describe the twelve months the Windsors have just gone through. But while 2021 has been a year of sadness and frustrations, the ruling dynasty is a long way…
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Did Richard III actually save the boy king he's accused of killing?

It’s a question that has long divided historians – did Richard III kill off his main rivals for the throne, his nephews, known forever afterwards as the Princes in the Tower? Now a new theory that argues for Richard’s innocence has been published and it revolves around a man who lived in obscurity in a tiny Devon village over five hundred years ago.The Missing Princes…
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The two weddings of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

It was a royal union that changed England forever. The marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn followed years of legal wrangling by the king which led to a religious revolution and an international controversy. When they said ‘I do’, they did so in secret but five centuries on, the question remains – how many clandestine ceremonies did Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn take part in?Their union…
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