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A sparkling nod to royal romance in the Queen's latest official portrait

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20th November 2020
The Queen has added a romantic touch to her latest official photograph. For in the image taken to mark her 73rd wedding anniversary, Her Majesty has given pride of place to a sparkling brooch which links this new picture to others captured at deeply personal moments in her historic reign. The Chrysanthemum brooch has featured in some of the most significant portraits taken during the marriage…
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The Queen at her grandchildren's weddings

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19th November 2020
It’s the other outfit that everyone wants to see at a royal wedding, the one chosen by the Queen. While anticipation was huge seven decades ago for the bridal gown worn by the future Elizabeth II for her own marriage to Prince Philip, in the intervening years her style…
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The other major royal milestones of 2022

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16th November 2020
It might be over a year away but plans are already being drawn up to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Elizabeth II’s historic reign will be feted in a long weekend of parties in June 2022. We can expect Europe’s ruling houses to be involved but they will have to co-ordinate diaries well because the continent’s royal families have some pretty big milestones of their…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Princess Anne

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14th November 2020
The only daughter of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh is known for her down to earth, no-nonsense approach to life and in many ways, the flowers chosen by Princess Anne for her wedding in 1973 to Captain Mark Phillips were that attitude in petal form. As she became the first royal bride of her generation, the Princess chose a simple selection of flowers that fit perfectly with her classic…
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Princess Anne's royal wedding dresses

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14th November 2020
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was the first of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh’s children to wed and she was also the first to contract a second marriage. For both ceremonies, she chose striking outfits which would take their own places in royal wedding…
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Charles at 72: a year in the life of the birthday prince

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14th November 2020
The Prince of Wales celebrates his 72nd birthday on November 14th 2020 and will look back on an eventful year which has seen change in his family and a challenge to alter the Royal Family in a moment unprecedented in its recent history. As Charles marks his birthday, Royal Central looks back at the year just gone for the birthday prince. November 2019 [getty src=”1189241726&#8243…
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