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Are we done with these poor, unfortunate Diana portrayals yet?

What would happen if nearly everything bad that ever happened in Diana, Princess of Wales’s life—that we know happened, anyway—happened over the three-day period of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day 1991? Spencer would happen. Fair warning: this review/opinion piece is laden with spoilers. If you want to watch without my ramblings colouring your opinion, do not…
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A King's Husband and a Queen's wife - what would we call a gay monarch's spouse?

Around the same time that the UK introduced new succession laws that allowed girls the same rights as boys, the country also passed same sex marriage legislation. But royal laws haven’t caught up with that yet. In the future, as is the case in most European countries, a prince may take a husband and a princess may choose a wife. But when that happens, what title will be bestowed on them? We…
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The Sussexes and Wessexes show that royalty is a tradition, not a trade - reinventing it never succeeds

While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to leave the UK for America might seem like a royal first to many, the discussions of leaving ‘The Firm’ have been held more frequently, and more recently, than you may expect. On the face of it, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Earl and Countess of Wessex may not appear to be too similar in their personal circumstances. But if we…
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Review: The Royal Key

Known for her Diana, Princess of Wales series, Deb Stratas has stepped into fiction with The Royal Key. The Royal Key focuses on Canadian protagonist Annabelle, who is struggling to overcome a personal tragedy. Before she knows it, she is nannying royal children in a Victorian country home in the 19th century. She has to figure out how to get back to the present to her lover while adapting to…
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