Luxembourg

Back to school with Princess Claire of Luxembourg

Princess Claire of Luxembourg, née Claire Lademacher, married Prince Felix of Luxembourg in September 2013. The couple met during their studies at Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil, a private boarding school in Switzerland. Before that, Claire was enrolled at the Atlanta International School when she was 11, and upon her family’s return to Germany in 1999, she was enrolled at the…
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British Royals

Back to school with Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales, was born Diana Frances Spencer on 1 July 1961, in Park House on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, the fourth of five children of John Spencer, later the 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances. She was initially home-schooled by her…
British Royals

Back to school with Prince Charles

In May 1955, Buckingham Palace made an unprecedented announcement: Prince Charles would be the first heir to the throne to be educated outside the palace and would begin school in January 1957, at the age of eight. Previous princes had received their early education from palace tutors or in military academies, but The Queen and Prince Philip reportedly felt that Charles would benefit from the…
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The Sussexes

Prince Harry becomes first member of The Royal Family to take legal action against Her Majesty’s Government

The Duke of Sussex is taking legal action against the UK Government over a decision not to allow him to pay for police protection while he is in the UK. Prince Harry is seeking a judicial review against the Home Office for not permitting him to have Metropolitan Police protection while in the UK. The prince says he is happy to fund that protection himself but that his offer has been…
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History

Charlotte of Wales, the queen Britain missed

Princess Charlotte of Wales was the queen that Britain never had, and easily the most popular member of the Royal Family during her lifetime. When she died in childbirth aged just 21, she was deeply mourned by the British public, yet her story is so often consigned to a…
Prince & Princess of Wales

Where is Kate? The mystery of the missing Duchess

Following on from the quiet month of August, the royal diary appears to be back in full swing with engagements being announced by The Royal Household for the coming months. But one member of The Royal Family who is not scheduled to undertake an engagement at the time of publication is the Duchess of Cambridge who has been absent from the public eye for a couple of months. The Duchess was…
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