Norway

Why question marks hang over King's highly anticipated festive speech

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20th December 2022
Discussions are going on behind closed palace doors over whether the traditional festive address given by King Harald of Norway can go ahead this year after the monarch was admitted to hospital. King Harald, who is now 85, was taken to the Rikshospitalet in Oslo on December 19th 2022 after developing an infection that needed to be treated with intravenous antibiotics. His condition is stable…
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Features

Who were Queen Elizabeth II's bridesmaids?

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20th November 2022
It was a wedding that made royal history and brought cheer to a nation still recovering from the Second World War. When Elizabeth, then heir to the British throne, married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, hundreds of thousands turned out to celebrate with them. Royalty from around…
Features

"Dear, oh dear" - What could King Charles do if confidence in the Prime Minister continues to plummet?

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14th October 2022
As they met for their weekly get together, King Charles III was heard to mutter ‘back again, dear oh dear,” as Prime Minister, Liz Truss, made her entrance. It may have been a comment on the Prime Minister’s somewhat unusual style of curtseying although less kind commentators have gone as far to question whether the Monarch was thinking out loud for the country. Whatever the…
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Luxembourg

Back to school with Princess Claire of Luxembourg

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1st September 2022
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…
British Royals

Back to school with Diana, Princess of Wales

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31st August 2022
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 mother’s governess, Gertrude Allen, known in the family as ‘Ally’. She began her formal education in 1968 at Silfield Private…
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British Royals

Back to school with Prince Charles

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20th August 2022
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…
British Royals

The Queen's discreet actions to protect her cousin, the Duke of Kent, revealed

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3rd May 2022
The Queen personally intervened to ensure the safety of her cousin, the Duke of Kent, after information came to light that the IRA was planning to kidnap him. The Duke had been posted to Northern Ireland with the Royal Scots Greys in 1971. However, the former Northern Irish Prime Minister, Terence O’Neill, had information that the IRA planned to kidnap the Duke if he entered Belfast. He…
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