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Queen Rania visits Royal Grant Scheme projects during trip to Al Shobak

Queen Rania of Jordan visited the Royal Grant Scheme projects during her trip to Al Shobak on Wednesday. The Queen met several representatives of local societies, local officials and owners of some income-generating projects. Queen Rania spoke to beneficiaries of the Royal Grant Scheme in the visitor’s centre of Shobak Castle; there, she shared encouragement and her happiness that she was…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Diana, Princess of Wales

The flowers chosen by Diana, Princess of Wales for her wedding day are among the most memorable of royal bouquets. The tumbling, trailing mix of cream, green and yellow blooms that the bride carried into St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 29th 1981 for her marriage to the Prince of Wales remain among the most recognizable of royal flowers almost four decades after they were first seen. For a start…
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Forty years on: the royal fairytale wedding that missed its happy ending

In the end, it wasn’t the fairytale marriage the world had hoped for, but on 29 July 1981, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer married in a glittering ceremony that could best be described as a fairytale, watched by an estimated one billion people. Forty years on, Royal Central looks back at this historic day. [getty src=”71520536″ width=”594&#8243…
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Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark to miss Olympics after COVID-19 exposure

On Monday, the Danish Royal Court announced that Crown Prince Frederik will now not attend the Tokyo Olympic Games after having been in contact with someone who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.  The Crown Prince was set to travel to the Japanese capital from the 19th to the 26th of July, to encourage Team Denmark before the official start of the competitions and to be present for the…
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