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Blue, gold and cream: the intricate wedding dresses that turned a controversial consort into a royal bride

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9th April 2022
It was one of the most talked about royal weddings in decades. When  Camilla Parker-Bowles and Charles, Prince of Wales on April 9th 2005 in Windsor, millions were watching. And they saw a royal bride with not one but two different wedding outfits for her big day. As the couple mark their fifteenth wedding anniversary, Royal Central looks back at the wedding gowns of Camilla, Duchess of…
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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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