British Royals

The intriguing and controversial past of Queen Camilla's wedding anniversary jewel pick

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7th April 2025
The Queen has chosen an intriguing piece of jewellery for the official portraits marking her twentieth wedding anniversary. Queen Camilla wore a brooch created to look like lily of the valley for the photos which were captured by Chris Getty in Rome soon after Her Majesty touched down there with The King ahead of their State Visit to Italy. The gem originally belonged to The Queen Mother and…
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British Royals

The time Queen Elizabeth II stopped a cheeky cigarette break at an historic royal wedding

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4th April 2025
They were two of the guests of honour at one of the most historic of royal weddings but they were still stopped in their tracks as they attempted to pop outside for a quick smoke. Tom Parker Bowles and his sister, Laura, were in the middle of the celebrations marking the marriage of their mother, Queen Camilla, to Charles III when they decided they wouldn’t mind a cheeky cigarette…
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The necklace given to a future queen that's now a go to royal wedding tiara

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2nd April 2025
It’s become one of the big questions in the run up to a royal marriage – which tiara will the bride wear? It’s now an accepted part of any Windsor wedding and the decision of Princess Beatrice to wear the same tiara as Elizabeth II did for her big day is both sentimental and rather significant. Beatrice was the third generation of Queen Elizabeth II’s family to wear this…
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Sophie starts the race as Tour de France plans to make history in Edinburgh

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20th March 2025
It’s one of the biggest sporting events Edinburgh has ever hosted so it was rather appropriate for the city’s very own duchess to fire the starting gun on what promises to be an epic encounter. Sophie was at Edinburgh Castle as it was announced that the Tour de France will start in Scotland for the very first time and make history with it. For Le Grand Depart of 2027 will also…
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