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Keeping up with Anne: the Princess Royal's Week

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13th April 2019
Another week, another packed diary for the Princess Royal. The past seven days have seen her criss cross England, support many of the organisations close to her heart and remember a time when supersonice was all the rage. It’s time to keep up with Anne. The Princess Royal’s week started in Oxfordshire where she carried out two engagements on Monday. First stop was Thame were, in her…
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Your chance to visit Frogmore House, Windsor

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10th April 2019
Frogmore House, royal residence and regal wedding venue of choice for the Windsors, is throwing open its doors to visitors. The famous building at Windsor will be open for three charity days at the end of May this year. The visits are part of the annual charity garden open days. This year they fall on May 28th, 29th and 30th and support three different organisations – the National Garden…
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New TV series on Empress Sisi planned

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8th April 2019
Eternally beautiful, eternally tragic, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi, continues to fascinate, over a hundred years after her death. And now the story of this groundbreaking royal is to hit TV screens in a new production. The new version will be an adaptation of the…
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Royal Pictures from History: arrival of a princess

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8th April 2019
There are thousands of images of royalty but some regal pictures stand out. They capture a moment in time that has its own resonance and which lasts beyond the day on which it was taken. In this occasional series, Royal Central takes a look back at some of the best known royal images in history and the story behind them. This time, it’s the moment celebrity and royalty really came together…
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Queen Victoria's April Royal Babies

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5th April 2019
If you think royal baby mania is a new thing, think again. For centuries, the arrival of a regal bundle of joy has got plenty of people talking. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert kept the papers and the people happy for the best part of two decades as they went about building…
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Royal Birthplaces: the royal babies of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington

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5th April 2019
It’s not yet been announced where the Duchess of Sussex has chosen to have her first baby and it’s just as likely that we won’t find out until after the new seventh in line to the throne has made their debut. But that hasn’t stopped one location, the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, yet again becoming the focus of royal baby watchers everywhere. Whether or not we all end up…
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