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Royal Central to begin diarist-style Monarchy report

Royal Central is pleased to announce the launch of The Courtier. This new diarist-style blog will serve as Royal Central’s new hub for finding out the goings-on in court at Buckingham Palace and in other Monarchies around the world. It will include international pieces you wouldn’t normally get to see anywhere else and interesting pieces from the Court of St James that other media…
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New editor joins Royal Central team

Royal Central is pleased to announce that Monique Turnbull will be joining the Royal Central editorial team from today under the role of ‘Desk Editor’. Monique’s role will be to collect headlines and feed them back to Royal Central’s writers to enable us to cover even more of the latest news. She will also support the other editors in assisting with other editorial duties…
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Prince & Princess of Wales

Australian PM 'knits toy kangaroo for royal baby'

The once-hardened-republican PM, Julia Gillard has revealed yet another soft spot for the Royal Family by admitting that she is in the process of knitting a woollen toy kangaroo for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child when it’s born next month. Ms Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, was regarded as one of the most outspoken advocates of republicanism in Australia until…
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History

King Henry VIII is Crowned

King Henry VIII was crowned King of England on 24th June 1509. Five hundred and four years ago today, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England in a ceremony of pomp and splendour at Westminster Abbey.   The coronation ceremony was performed…
History

Who is the White Queen?

If you enjoy historical fiction as much as me, I am sure that you will be looking forward to the BBC’s new programme ‘The White Queen’, starting tonight at 9pm, as much as I am. Based on Philippa Gregory’s popular ‘cousin’ books this ten-part series follows the fortunes of three of the most influential women at the time of The War of the Roses. So who is the…
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