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It was a marriage for the history books but the bride and groom soon discovered that even royalty has to play by some rules. When King Charles and Queen Camilla announced their engagement in February 2005, they said almost straight away that they would marry in April that year in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle. They also announced they would have their union blessed later that same day in…

William and Kate are known around the world as the Prince and Princess of Wales. In Scotland, they actually use a different title – the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay. As they visited the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, that’s a name they both had to get used to again. Many members of the Royal Family have Scottish titles which they use in preference to others while in the country.

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, carried an extraordinary burden for the final years of her husband’s life – choosing never to tell Prince Henry that their eldest son had died. The deeply personal decision followed the tragic death of Prince William of Gloucester in a plane crash in 1972, at a time when the Duke of Gloucester’s own health had deteriorated dramatically…

The decision to strip Sir Jeffrey Donaldson of his knighthood has shone a spotlight on one of the least-used parts of Britain’s honours system – the forfeiture of royal honours. While knighthoods are among the country’s highest honours, they are not necessarily held for life. In exceptional circumstances, recipients can be stripped of their titles if they are deemed to have…