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Princess Anne highlights vital role of maternity support on International Day of the Midwife

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5th May 2020
The Princess Royal has thanked midwives and maternity medics for providing hope, joy and care during ‘difficult times’ in a special message. Princess Anne spoke of her admiration for the work of all those looking after mothers and babies as she marked International Day of the Midwife. The princess, speaking in her role as patron of the Royal College of Midwives, highlighted the…
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Sweden's royals remember their country's missing queen

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1st May 2020
Crown Princess Victoria has paid a poignant visit to the grave of a royal relative to lead tributes to a missing Queen of Sweden. On the anniversary of the death of Crown Princess Margaret, her descendants remembered her with an arrangement of the flower she shared her name with and left daisies on her grave. Margaret died on May 1st 1920, plunging her family and her country into grief. She had…
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The Queen promotes Captain Tom Moore to mark his 100th birthday

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30th April 2020
The fundraising of Captain Tom Moore has been recognised on his 100th birthday with a special military move. Captain Moore has been made an Honorary Colonel by the Queen to celebrate his centenary. The man who has captured imaginations around the world has been made the first Honorary Colonel of the Army Foundation College as he turns 100. The college is based in Harrogate in Yorkshire, the…
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What is so magical about royal weddings?

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29th April 2020
They are filled with tradition and part of history and there’s no doubt about it, they’re popular. A royal wedding has a power to fascinate that continues, however much time and society change around it. In the first of a special summer series, Lydia Starbuck…
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The Windsor Brides of Westminster Abbey

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29th April 2020
It’s been a seat of royal tradition for centuries, a place of coronations, kings and queens. But for much of its ancient history, Westminster Abbey was far from a go to place for royal weddings. From the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 20th, no regal marriages took place there at all. But the House of Windsor changed all that. For the last century, it’s been a…
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