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Royal Mint unveils new coin showing The Queen on horseback to mark her Platinum Jubilee

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6th January 2022
A brand new 50p marking The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been launched and it’s already making history. The new design, which shows The Queen on horseback, is the first collectable 50p coin marking a major royal event. Created by John Bergdahl, the image was personally approved by Her Majesty. It shows her on horseback, riding sidesaddle, as she did for so many years during…
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A Calendar of Kings: January

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2nd January 2022
Each monarch leaves their mark, placing their personality on the fabric of history. And charting those footprints tells a story all of its own. From births to weddings, coronations to the passing of power, the major moments in a monarch’s life have an impact far beyond…
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New biography about Queen Alexandra to hit the bookshelves in February

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1st January 2022
In February of 2022, a new biography of Queen Alexandra will be hitting bookshelves.  On 28 February, Frances Dimond’s Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love will be available. This is the first major Queen Alexandra biography that covers both her public and private lives. Although Alexandra was a popular Princess of Wales, Queen, and Dowager Queen, there have been few biographies written about…
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A Calendar of Queens: January

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1st January 2022
The royal past is peppered with milestones, those major moments that take on an importance all of their own, and Britain’s queens have provided plenty of history worth talking about. From the reigns that started to the rules that came to an end, from the happy arrivals…
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The royal events we can look forward to in 2022

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31st December 2021
It promises to be a very busy royal year with plenty to look forward to over the coming twelve months. There’s not one but two jubilees as well as a host of big birthdays and wedding anniversaries and that’s before anyone steps outside a palace and gets busy. As…
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The Royal 2021: the moments that linger

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31st December 2021
It was, once more, a royal year like no other. As 2021 winds to a close, fading to nothing more than memories, many moments remain, but some linger more than others. The past twelve months have proved challenging for everyone, royalty included, and amongst the joy has been deep sadness, too. As the year comes to an end, the Royal Central team looks back at the memories that remain outstanding for…
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Did Richard III actually save the boy king he's accused of killing?

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29th December 2021
It’s a question that has long divided historians – did Richard III kill off his main rivals for the throne, his nephews, known forever afterwards as the Princes in the Tower? Now a new theory that argues for Richard’s innocence has been published and it revolves around a man who lived in obscurity in a tiny Devon village over five hundred years ago. The Missing Princes…
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