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A piece of history sees an evocative reimagination of Queen Elizabeth to summarise her record breaking reign

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25th April 2024
Summing up the historic reign of Queen Elizabeth II is hard but a brand new sculpture aims to provide a lasting reminder of Her Late Majesty. A seven-foot bronze statue depicting the late monarch as a young woman was unveiled outside the local library on what would be her 98th birthday. The statue by Hywel Brân Pratley reimagines a young queen in her ceremonial robes with the George IV Diadem…
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The history of Commonwealth Day

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11th March 2024
Every year on the second Monday of March, Commonwealth Day (originally known as Empire Day) is celebrated. While the date has some official status in certain member states of the Commonwealth, observances are not specific to this particular day. In most countries, it’s not…
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What is Commonwealth Day?

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10th March 2024
Every year, on the second Monday of March, the Commonwealth of Nations celebrates Commonwealth Day. The goal is to unite 2.5 billion Commonwealth citizens and celebrate their shared principles and values. It also aims to ensure a future of peace.  The day was initially convieced in the 1890s as Empire Day and was renamed Commonwealth Day in 1958. While originally held on Queen Victoria’s…
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A royal love story: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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19th February 2024
Their love is perhaps one of the strongest in royal history, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His early death impacted the rest of her reign as a depressed widow who took every opportunity to pay tribute to her late husband. Albert was Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (present-day Bavaria and Thuringia, Germany) and Victoria’s first cousin. Despite being born three months apart, they had…
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The love story of the Prince and Princess of Wales

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16th February 2024
In 2001, Prince William met Catherine Middleton while they were students in residence at St Salvator’s Hall at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. While the two were close friends at first, it was at a charity fashion show in 2002 that Catherine reportedly caught…
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Edward and Sophie: their love story

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16th February 2024
If one wanted to be cheeky, one could say this royal love story began with a match. Well, it did when Prince Edward, the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, met Sophie Rhys-Jones at a tennis event in 1993. She represented firms across the UK, Switzerland, and Australia…
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The love story that changed royal history: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

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16th February 2024
On 20 November 1947,Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh tied the knot at London’s Westminster Abbey. Their marriage would last more than 70 years until Philip’s passing in 2021.  Elizabeth and Philip shared a royal history with both being descended from Queen Victoria and Denmark’s King Christian but their lives had been very different. Elizabeth became…
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