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A Week in Royal History: fashion, lost secrets and a right royal romance

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16th February 2019
Royalty is never far from the news and Britain’s rich regal history can offer up tales to thrill on even the wettest Wednesday in February. The past seven days have seen a slew of stories all about the past so here’s a round up of the week just gone in royal history. The Princess Royal came face to face with part of her own history when she visited York. Anne stopped off at the…
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Norway's lost royal monument

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12th February 2019
Today, an impressive large statue of King Karl Johan is present at the Palace Square in Oslo. It has been there since 1875 and has become a symbol, a landmark and an icon of the entire city. What is less known is that this was not the first statue there. Before the…
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What happened to the Iranian royals after the monarchy fell?

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11th February 2019
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of the 2,500-year-old Persian monarchy. We are taking a look at what happened to the Iranian royals after the monarchy was officially deposed in the evening on this day in 1979. The monarch in Iran was the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was married to Empress Farah. The Shah had four children with the Empress (Crown Prince Reza…
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Queen Victoria's Wedding Dress

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10th February 2019
Queen Victoria’s wedding dress is a powerful symbol of what she would refer to in her journal as the ‘happiest day of my life’. Most probably, it represents more than any other item of clothing or object, the Queen’s identity as a royal bride. Certainly, she chose to…
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Rare portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots to go on display

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8th February 2019
In the portrait she is a young widow, mourning a husband who had died not long after their wedding and whose death left her free to pursue the power she had been born to wield. Almost five hundred years after it was painted, an image of Mary, Queen of Scots at a crucial moment in her tumultuous royal career is going on show. The painting, by Francois Clouet, was only recently confirmed to be of…
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Floral tributes placed on King George VI's grave on anniversary of his death

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6th February 2019
Flowers are being laid on the grave of George VI at Windsor today to mark the 67th anniversary of his death.  The Queen’s father, who died in his sleep on February 6th 1952, is buried at St. George’s Chapel. A wreath of seasonal flowers in yellow and regal purple is among the tributes being left for the monarch who was 56 when he passed away at Sandringham in Norfolk. He had been king…
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