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Margrethe at 80: A True Royal Love Story

This month, the Queen of Denmark celebrates her 80th birthday. While celebrations will take place later in the year, owing to the coronavirus outbreak, as Margrethe reaches this major milestone, her remarkable life and reign are again in the spotlight. Today, let’s take a look at the love story of Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, one that lasted over 50 years. Princess Margrethe met her…
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Foundation Spotlight: Invictus Foundation

At the end of February, an air of excitement surrounded the famous Abbey Road Studios in London; Jon Bon Jovi was re-recording a single, but this time with a very special guest in attendance… The re-recording of Bon Jovi’s song ‘Unbroken’, with the Invictus Games…
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Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria reveal their favourite royal jewellery

In a two-part documentary about the Swedish Royal Jewels, both Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria have spoken about wearing some of the oldest and most precious jewellery in the world. The Queen and Crown Princess of Sweden also revealed their favourite tiaras. Her Majesty Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Christina -King Carl XVI Gustaf’s sister – have participated…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: the Duchess of Cornwall

The flowers carried by the Duchess of Cornwall on her wedding day, April 9th 2005, were filled with personal touches that had their own place in her royal romance with the Prince of Wales. For not only were the flowers in Camilla’s posy highly significant, they had been grown by the bride and groom themselves. The Duchess of Cornwall’s wedding flowers were a burst of spring sunshine. She…
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Philippe at 60: The Unexpected Heir

Today, we’re looking back at King Philippe’s adult life until he became the King of the Belgians in 2013. [getty src=”172013850″ width=”438″ height=”594″ tld=”ca”] After Prince Philippe turned 18, he joined the Belgium Royal Military School and…
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The Royal Escape from Oslo: 9 April 1940

This year, in 2020, marks 75 years since World War II ended. It is also the 80th anniversary of war coming to the Monarchies of Norway and Denmark. While the Danish royal family was taken prisoner by the Nazis, the Norwegian royal family managed to escape and carry on the…
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Royal Wedding Dresses: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

It was one of the most talked about royal weddings in decades. When  Camilla Parker-Bowles and Charles, Prince of Wales on April 9th 2005 in Windsor, millions were watching. And they saw a royal bride with not one but two different wedding outfits for her big day. As the couple mark their fifteenth wedding anniversary, Royal Central looks back at the wedding gowns of Camilla, Duchess of…
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