Features

Sandringham, the favourite home where the Royal Family spends Christmas

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22nd December 2022
King Charles III is gathering the Royal Family around him at Sandringham for Christmas celebrations. It’s the first festive season for them since the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the first time the whole family has been able to gather at the Norfolk estate for Christmas since 2019 and the pandemic. Learn more about the main house on His Majesty’s estate in Norfolk. Where is it…
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Queen Elizabeth II's most famous Christmas Broadcasts

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21st December 2022
For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II was a staple of Christmas Day, appearing on television, radio and on the internet throughout her reign to deliver her annual Christmas Message. This year, King Charles III will deliver his first Christmas broadcast – a tradition…
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King Haakon’s Christmas speeches to an occupied Norway

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20th December 2022
Christmas tends to be a pleasant time, especially for the royals. When it comes to the Norwegian Royal Family, they have many good Christmas traditions that make Christmas a pleasant time. There is, however, a period when Christmas for the Royal Family from Norway was not very pleasant, namely during World War II. Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940. This led to a five-year occupation. While…
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Winter's most romantic royal palaces: Rosenborg

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18th December 2022
Rosenborg Castle has plenty of royal history and carries an air of regal menace that is only slightly softened when the snow falls. Decked in flakes, it still looks as if its only place in a fairytale is as the home of a villain. It has majesty and mystery and covered in…
Insight

If Edward VIII hadn’t abdicated, who would be Monarch today?

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15th December 2022
We all love a royal ‘what if’ and perhaps one of the most intriguing of recent times revolves around the question of the king who renounced his throne for love. On December 11th 1936, 86 years ago, Edward VIII announced to the world that he was ending his reign to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. But what if Edward VIII hadn’t abdicated? Who would be Monarch now? There…
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Victoria's Christmas: the revealing festive celebrations of a young princess

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13th December 2022
She was the queen who made her mark on Christmas. So much of how we celebrate the festive season began in the Victorian era and the monarch who gave her name to that time left intricate records of how she celebrated. In this special series, Royal Central looks at some of the most important of them and discovers how Queen Victoria celebrated Christmas. The Christmas of 1832 is the first recorded…
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