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Crown Princess Victoria's best tiara moments

The Nobel Prize Ceremony is always a chance for Swedish Royal Family glamour, but since this year’s awards have been cancelled because of the pandemic, we’re instead looking back at some of the best tiara moments from each royal lady. Let’s take a look at some of Crown Princess Victoria’s best tiara moments! [getty src=”102232126″ width=”594&#8243…
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How the British line of succession will look in 2021

The Queen will welcome two great grandchildren in 2021 which means that the line of succession is about to be shaken up again. Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, are expecting their first child in the coming year while Zara and Mike Tindall also have another baby on the way, a sibling for their two girls, Mia and Lena. Neither couple has confirmed an exact due date but by next…
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Royal Wedding Dresses: Princess Lilian of Sweden

It’s one of my all time favourite royal wedding dresses and just a glimpse of it can make me feel ever so slightly emotional. For not only was the pale blue gown worn by a lass called Lilian from Swansea on a cold, December day in 1976 a masterclass in elegance and chic, it was also the wedding dress of a princess decades in the making. It’s now forty four years since Prince Bertil of…
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Who was Ealhswith, queen to King Alfred?

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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Royal Wedding Rewind: King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians

It was the last major royal wedding of the 20th century and it began a new chapter in a royal story that would lead to a throne. On December 4th 1999, the then heir to the Belgian throne, Philippe, married Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz before a host of regal guests. The couple became King and Queen of the Belgians in 2013. On the twentieth anniversary of their marriage, Royal Central…
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