British Royals

The Princess Royal is already busy as 2022 starts - it's a shame we don't hear more about it

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22nd January 2022
It won’t be that much of a surprised to hear that the Princess Royal has been keeping busy now the New Year is under way. Princess Anne is well known for packing out her diary with engagements. What’s perhaps more surprising is that barely a mention has been made of it. In a week when the decision to phase back the social media accounts of the Duke of York made headlines, for…
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British Royals

Prince Andrew disappears from social media

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19th January 2022
The Duke of York’s official social media accounts have started to disappear. it’s just a week since a US judge ruled he must face a civil trial over allegations of sexual assault, claims Prince Andrew denies. Within hours of that court decision being made, the prince was removed from all his royal patronages and military appointments, and had to stop using HRH in an official…
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Features

A little house and one of the 20th century's most popular royals

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17th January 2022
It was a quiet country house, described by several who knew it as ‘’little’’ and a ‘’pied a terre’, given as a wedding present to a royal couple who were expected to linger on the fringes of regal life. Yet on July 2nd 1903, it became the birthplace of one of the most popular and celebrated monarchs of the 20th century. For it was at Appleton House, on the Sandringham Estate, that…
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Denmark

Queen Margrethe's curtsey for her father on the anniversary of his death

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14th January 2022
Margrethe II of Denmark led her family’s tributes to her late parents with a deep and reverential curtsey in front of their graves. On the 50th anniversary of the death of her father, King Frederik IX, and her own accession, Queen Margrethe made poignant gesture as she prepared to leave their tombs. The Danish Monarch’s composure appeared to crumble briefly as she began to move away…
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