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INTERVIEW: Allison Epstein brings Elizabeth I's spy network to life in her first novel

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20th February 2021
You might know the Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher “Kit” Marlowe as one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s predecessors, but for centuries Marlowe’s legacy has lived on in another story: that he was a spy for Queen Elizabeth I. A Tip for the Hangman, a new novel by debut historical author Allison Epstein, explores what could have happened if Marlowe truly…
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A hat trick of royal babies for 2021

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17th February 2021
2021 is proving to be the year of royal babies for the British Royal Family. The Queen will have a hat trick of new great-grandchildren including Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s son, and the upcoming births of the children from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Zara and Mike Tindall. Royal Central is breaking down the new bundles of joy joining the monarchy this year and where…
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King Willem-Alexander reenacts proposal in Valentine's Day gesture

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14th February 2021
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands shared a romantic photo on Instagram earlier today in which he reenacted his proposal to Queen Maxima. King Willem-Alexander famously proposed to his now-wife Queen Maxima on the icy pond at Huis Ten Bosch over twenty years ago. This year, he reenacted the moment and shared it with the world with the words, “Over twenty years later, same place.
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Royal Wedding Dresses: Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg

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14th February 2021
On 14 February 1981, the religious wedding ceremony for then Henri, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg to Cuban-born María Teresa Mestre y Batista in Notre Dame Cathedral took place. The pair, who had married in a civilceremony earlier in the day in the Grand Ducal Palace, did not know they had chosen to marry on Valentine’s Day, as, at the time, it was not a holiday widely…
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