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"I'll never forget" - Royal Central's editorial team and readers share the moment they learned about the death of Diana

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31st August 2022
It was a defining moment of its generation – a time when the world stopped to collectively grieve the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, following the tragic car crash in Paris that claimed her life in the early hours of 31 August 1997. Twenty-five years later, the memory of where and when people heard the sad news remains as vivid as if it were yesterday. Here, the editorial team and…
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The royal woman who went from hidden queen to founder of history's most famous dynasty

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25th August 2022
For a woman who founded one of the most famous royal dynasties in British history, she is surprisingly enigmatic. Katherine of Valois was the first Kate to be Queen of England and yet much of the modern imagining of her comes from her fleeting appearance in the works of Shakespeare. But what little we do know seems to indicate that the ‘fair Kate’ of Henry V was every bit as ambitious…
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History

The monarch responsible for the Library of Alexandria

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19th August 2022
Everyone knows of the ancient Library of Alexandria, which was located in Egypt and later destroyed – losing a wealth of knowledge from the ancient world. But who was the monarch responsible for its creation? It is thought the idea of the library was first brought up to Ptolemy I Soter by Demetrius of Phalerum – an Athenian orator living in Alexandria who had been exiled – 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 empress, settled into her royal nursery, another royal woman who would have a major impact on her life was claiming all the…
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