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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden celebrates a very different birthday

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15th July 2020
The birthday celebrations for Sweden’s future monarch looked very different this year as Crown Princess Victoria turned 43 without the usual public events that mark her big day. The coronavirus pandemic meant that the popular gathering at Solliden in Sweden, where the Crown Princess and her family greet wellwishers, couldn’t take place. However, celebrations still continued.The day…
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Royal Wedding Dresses: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones

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14th July 2020
In the run up to this royal wedding, there was as much speculation about the guest list as there was about the bridal gown. As Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, only daughter of Princess Margaret and her former husband, Antony, Earl of Snowdon, prepared to marry Daniel Chatto, the chatter was about who might attend. They wed on July 14th 1994, as the bride’s royal cousins were going through…
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Meet Henry VIII's most successful queen

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12th July 2020
On a hot summer day in 1543, a young widow married an ageing and much wed king in a ceremony that took many by surprise. By the time Katherine Parr said ‘I do’ to Henry VIII in the Queen’s Closet at Hampton Court Palace on July 12th 1543, his five previous unions and attitude towards marital harmony were such that continental contenders to be consort of England were all but running in the…
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At Grillon's Hotel: an unlikely royal romance

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11th July 2020
On a summer’s day in 1818, a young German princess walked into one of the most famous hotels in London to meet a man twice her age. Just a year earlier, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen and her suitor, William, Duke of Clarence, would never have considered chatting let alone taking the step that would inevitably follow this brief exchange. But after a short time together, with chaperones, of…
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