Opinion

Charlie Proctor: It is high time we stop treating The Royal Family like celebrities

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31st July 2018
Royal Central’s Editor-in-Chief Charlie Proctor says it is high time we stop treating members of The Royal Family as celebrities and to instead consider them in the same light as any politicians or statespersons. What does the Duchess of Cambridge and Kim Kardashian have in common? Maybe more than we would like to admit! Both of these women regularly feature on the front pages of newspapers…
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Review: Harry and Meghan, A Royal Romance

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15th May 2018
If you were secretly hoping that the new Lifetime movie – Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance – would be good, I’m sorry to burst your bubble. The Crown it is not. There’s always an element of camp to Lifetime movies. The genre was basically built for it, and A Royal Romance is no exception. From Meghan insisting – in nearly every scene – that she’s an independent, strong, self-made…
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Opinion: What kind of role should Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have?

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30th April 2018
There are currently 23 official members of the British Royal Family who hold royal titles. However, there are only two members out of 23 who don’t have their profiles on the official royal website, and these are Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are daughters of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, The Queen’s second son and as such, they are Princesses of…
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Royally Suited: Book Review

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13th April 2018
In reading Royally Suited: Harry and Meghan in their own words by Phil Dampier, you realise just how perfect these soon-to-be newlyweds are for each other. Divided into two sections, one for Prince Harry and one for Meghan Markle, Dampier has plucked quotes that highlight…
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How important are the Royals to being British today?

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1st March 2018
How important are the Royal Family to the idea of Britishness today? That’s one of the questions raised by a set of coins which go into circulation in the UK on March 1st 2018. The Royal Mint has launched a series of new ten pence pieces– 26 in all, created to form an A-Z of British life in the 21st century. They’re described as ‘Quintessentially British’ and two of the designs are…
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