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Is Meghan a Princess? Technically yes - but it is more complicated than that

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31st August 2022
The Duchess of Sussex is not known as ‘Princess Meghan’ for exactly the same reasons that the Duchess of Cambridge is not known as ‘Princess Catherine’.Although both women listed their job titles as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’, neither woman is afforded the title.Upon their marriage in 2018, The Queen granted Prince Harry the title of Duke of Sussex, with Meghan…
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The sad anniversary that has given the Duke of Kent a place in the royal record books

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25th August 2022
The Duke of Kent is marking a poignant anniversary as he becomes the first person in recorded history to hold a dukedom for eighty years.Prince Edward, 86, became Duke of Kent on August 25th 1942 at the age of six when his father was killed in a plane crash.He has now held his title for eight decades, easily the longest that anyone has ever been a royal duke.It is a moment of deep…
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The four weddings of King Hussein

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16th August 2022
As we prepare for Princess Iman of Jordan’s wedding, we look at the weddings of her grandfather King Hussein, who was famously married four times.Embed from Getty ImagesThree years after his accession to the throne, King Hussein’s first wife was Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, who was also his distant cousin. Dina was born on 15 December 1929 in Egypt. She met her future husband in…
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A Duchess's trip to honour her mother

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4th August 2022
No one knew it at the time but on August 4th 1900, a woman who would change the course of royal history had made her debut. The birth of a daughter to Claude and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon didn’t trouble the papers of the day one jot. But as baby Elizabeth, later queen and…
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The mysterious beginnings of a famous queen consort

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4th August 2022
She lived most of her adult life in the spotlight and yet one very basic detail of her story is shrouded in mystery. For no one is really sure exactly where Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was born. And no one did more to get people guessing than the Queen Mum herself.In 1980, as preparations were under way for her eightieth birthday celebrations, a Clarence House press officer was asked to…
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