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The other major royal milestones of 2022

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 own coming up…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Princess Anne

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

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

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″…
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Westminster Abbey prepares for royal visit honouring the Unknown Warrior

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will attend a special ceremony marking the cententary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey. The heir to the throne and his wife will lead the commemoration which takes place on Armistice Day, November 11th. Laurel has been placed around the Warrior’s grave ahead of the service, echoing the flowers and wreaths laid in…
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