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The story of Lord Ivar Mountbatten - the Queen's cousin who is the first openly gay royal

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28th November 2020
In September 2016, Lord Ivar Mountbatten became the first member of the extended British Royal fam­ily to openly come out as gay. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday at the time of his disclosure, Lord Ivar said: “Being a Mountbatten was never the problem it was the generation into which I was born. When I was growing up, it was known as ‘the love that dare not speak its name’, but…
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The King and Queen of Sweden test negative for coronavirus

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27th November 2020
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden have tested negative for coronavirus. The couple were checked after their only son, Prince Carl Philip, and his wife, Princess Sofia, were diagnosed with Covid-19. The four had been together just days before Carl Philip and Sofia began to feel unwell and tested positive for coronavirus. They had all attended the funeral of Queen Silvia’s…
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The stark contrast in reaction to Meghan’s miscarriage compared to that of Zara Tindall’s exposes the ugly racism entrenched in society

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25th November 2020
On Wednesday, the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she sufferedthe “almost unbearable grief”ofa miscarriage in July. Writing an article in theNew York Times, Meghan shared her experiences, saying:“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.” Her openness and transparency on miscarriage has been widely praised, with it being…
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Why we should stop painting Camilla as a villain

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22nd November 2020
For decades, many have painted the Duchess of Cornwall as a villain cast opposite of Diana’s hero. It is past time for that narrative to stop. I was struck by how the Duchess is being, again, painted as the villain while watching the latest series of The Crown. We see her as the other woman, running around with the Prince of Wales while he was married to Diana. It is important to…
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