Sweden

The princess who chose a fairytale royal wedding at an island church decked with summer flowers

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18th March 2024
The Royal Family of Sweden does love a June wedding. The majority of their modern marriages have taken place in the month and June comes to an end with another Swedish royal wedding anniversary. Princess Margaretha, the eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf, married businessman John Ambler on June 30th 1964 in a ceremony strikingly different from those of her sisters. Let’s rewind to the…
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British Royals

Princess Anne presents the Gold Cup

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15th March 2024
The Princess Royal presented the Gold Cup on the biggest day of this year’s Cheltenham Festival.Galopin Des Champs claimed the prestigious race for the second time.[getty src=”2079425844″ width=”594″ height=”396″ tld=”com”]Princess Anne congratulated winning jockey, Paul Townend, as she oversaw the presentation ceremony as the four…
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Norway

King Harald out of hospital to recuperate at home

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14th March 2024
King Harald of Norway has left hospital after several weeks of treatment.The Norwegian monarch, 87, was discharged from the Rigshospitalet in Oslo on March 14th and went home to the Royal Palace where he will continue to recuperate.The Royal Court said King Harald…
Features

The mystery of the Queen Mother's wedding bouquet

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14th March 2024
It’s perhaps the most famous and talked about royal wedding bouquet of all. The flowers carried by the Queen Mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at her marriage in April 1923 have entered regal folklore after the bride used them to begin a royal wedding tradition known around the world. But do you actually know what this celebrated bouquet looks like?The chances are that the answer is no…
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Features

The lesson of royal history and International Women's Day

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13th March 2024
Royal history is peppered with stand out women. In the annals of all monarchies are queens and princesses who packed a punch and made a mark. But there is still a tendency to categorise the girls as the also rans, the second bests, the pretty and sometimes witty but when push comes to shove, they are always relegated to the role of background players. It only shows that men wrote history and, as…
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