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Another great-grandchild for The Queen - Zara Tindall expecting third child

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9th December 2020
Zara Tindall is pregnant with her third child, her husband Mike announced on the podcast he co-hosts The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, saying: “It’s been a good week for me, had a little scan last week – third Tindall on its way.” Zara is the second child of Princess Anne, The Queen’s only daughter. Her older brother, Peter Phillips was born on 15 November 1977. She also has two…
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The Queen puts up her Christmas tree

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5th December 2020
Windsor Castle is ready for Christmas as the Queen prepares to spend the festive season there for the first time in over thirty years. The tree is up in St. George’s Hall and sparkling ready for the big day. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 A 20 feet Norway spruce was selected from Windsor Great Park to form the central part of the Christmas decorations…
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Who was Ealhswith, queen to King Alfred?

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5th December 2020
Fans of the Netflix series “The Last Kingdom” and the series of books by Bernard Cornwell, on which the series is based, will know the main character Uhtred of Bebbanburg. He is a fictional character; however, many events in the series based in ninth-century…
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The tragedy of the last Stuart Monarch – Queen Anne’s 18 pregnancies

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3rd December 2020
Queen Anne quite frankly had a tremendous reign becoming the first Monarch of a united single sovereign state, known as Great Britain in 1707 as well as showing her worth as a Queen Regnant in a male dominated society. Though tragedy was never far away from the last of the Stuarts as not many people will be aware that Queen Anne became pregnant an astonishing 18 times, though not one of her…
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December's calendar of historic royal moments

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1st December 2020
1 December 1135: On this day in 1135, King Henry I died in Normandy, France. The fourth son of William the Conqueror was married to Matilda of Scotland, with whom he had three children, and to Adeliza of Louvain, after Matilda’s death. He also had at least twenty-four…
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Hermine: An Exiled Empress

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29th November 2020
Hermine Reuss of Greiz was born on 17 December 1887 as the fifth child and fourth daughter of Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Princess Ida Mathilde Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe. Her elder brother had been injured during a childhood surgery, leaving him mentally and physically disabled. Her parents had been praying for a boy, but they would not have another son. Her mother gave birth to a…
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