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Grand National Memories: Zara Tindall’s horse finishes third in the world's most famous horse race

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9th April 2022
A horse co-owned by Zara and Mike Tindall finished in third place in the 2015 Grand National held at Aintree Racecourse. It was a huge gamble entering Monbeg Dude in the National – the world’s most famous horse race which attracts a global audience of over half a billion people. But the gamble paid off, with the ten-year-old bay gelding finishing 3rd of 39 runners, picking up…
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A royal wedding, decades in the making

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8th April 2022
It was a wedding 35 years in the making for Prince Charles and Camilla. On April 9, 2005 after a royal scandal, a tragic death, forbidden love, two marriages and four children, Charles and Camilla were finally able to tie the knot. But like the years leading up the ceremony, the wedding day was no walk in the park. First of all, the day itself had to be rescheduled. Originally meant to take…
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Milestones of a Monarch: The Queen's historic visit to West Germany

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7th April 2022
While she has made countless milestones and memories over her 70-year reign, Royal Central is taking a look back at Her Majesty’s historic 1965 visit to West Germany in honour of the Platinum Jubilee. Her Majesty The Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh paid a state visit as the climax of a political reconciliation that had been pushed hard by both the British and German…
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When Dot Cotton met The Queen - in memorium to soap royalty, June Brown

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4th April 2022
June Brown, the legendary TV actress who has died at the age of 95, revealed she was so nervous at meeting The Queen on one of their several encounters that she almost fell over. The star, who was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list just months ago, revealed that when she’d picked up her MBE at Buckingham Palace in 2008, she had almost tripped over as she made her way…
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