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Royal Wedding Dresses: Princess Lilian of Sweden

It’s one of my all time favourite royal wedding dresses and just a glimpse of it can make me feel ever so slightly emotional. For not only was the pale blue gown worn by a lass called Lilian from Swansea on a cold, December day in 1976 a masterclass in elegance and chic, it was also the wedding dress of a princess decades in the making. It’s now forty four years since Prince Bertil of…
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Queen Elizabeth II

Behind the scenes details of the Queen's virtual audiences revealed

The Queen took to video link to receive the credentials of three new ambassadors to the UK this week but behind the new technology, some very old traditions remained. The new ambassadors for Hungary, Timor-Leste and Georgia were all welcomed to Buckingham Palace for the audiences and all of them arrived in style. Part of the tradition set for new ambassadors is a carriage ride to the Palace…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians

It was the last major royal wedding of the 20th century and it began a new chapter in a royal story that would lead to a throne. On December 4th 1999, the then heir to the Belgian throne, Philippe, married Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz before a host of regal guests. The couple became King and Queen of the Belgians in 2013. On the twentieth anniversary of their marriage, Royal Central…
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Spain

Queen Letizia takes charge of Spain's royal agenda

The coronavirus pandemic has left Queen Letizia of Spain as the only member of her royal family taking on engagements as December gets under way. The Spanish royal diary for this week is entirely down to her and could remain that way into the following week. King Felipe is in isolation after he came into contact with someone who later tested positive for coronavirus. Although the Spanish…
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