Features

Queen Camilla wears Queen Elizabeth II's 16th birthday gift at Trooping the Colour

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14th June 2025
Queen Camilla’s added a touching tribute to Queen Elizabeth II to her outfit at Saturday’s Trooping the Colour. The Queen, who serves as Regimental Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, wore her late mother-in-law’s Grenadier Guards brooch, which had been gifted to the then-Princess Elizabeth on her 16th birthday in 1942. The Grenadier Guards brooch features the cypher of King George VI…
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Features

The striking royal event that put Dame Penny Mordaunt's name in the history books

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14th June 2025
Penny Mordaunt has been been made a dame in that major royal event, the King’s Birthday Honours, in recognition for her services to politics. Dame Penny was the first woman to be Lord President of the Privy Council and, as such, she famously carried the Sword of State at the Coronation in May 2023. However, before that, an even more symbolic moment had put her name in the history books. For…
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Opinion

Message to Princess Anne: Put your feet up ma’am and enjoy your birthday - you deserve it

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12th June 2025
Royal Central’s Editor-at-Large, Charlie Proctor, is hopeful that Princess Anne will put herself first for just one day, and celebrate her 75th birthday in August in style. Hard-working, self-effacing and utterly dedicated to duty. These are the words I would use to describe the Princess Royal. Despite being well past retirement age, she remains a constant in the royal diary, carrying out…
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Features

Henry VIII's first royal wedding

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12th June 2025
King Henry VIII is known for his six wives. They were divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded – and one survived. However, before he charged down the path of continually trading in wives to hopefully find the “one”, he married his elder brother’s widow…