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How The Queen's honours process has changed for the better: An interview with Bayleaf Honours

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4th March 2020
We’ve all seen the smiling photos of actors, authors, emergency workers, and charity leaders holding up their new CBE, MBE, or OBE at Buckingham Palace, but how did they get there? And really, what are the chances of an everyday person getting honoured by The Queen? Securing a place at an investiture ceremony is no easy feat, but up until the 1990s, it was virtually impossible for…
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Why was ”God Save The Queen” played as George H.W. Bush's casket arrived in Maryland?

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3rd March 2020
If you watched President George H.W. Bush’s casket arrive in Maryland in December 2018 and are British, you might have been confused as to why “God Save The Queen” was being played. If you are American like me, you would think nothing of it. You would recognise it as the song “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” that you sang in many school events growing up. Former President George Bush…
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Review: At Home with Diana

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2nd March 2020
Deb Stratas has written her fourth book featuring Diana, Princess of Wales. This one, At Home with Diana, tells Diana’s story through the windows of her homes and residences. The book goes from her birth to her death in homes such as Park House, Althorp, Kensington Palace and Highgrove. We see how she lived her life in each home and how they shaped her into who she became. It begins…
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A Calendar of Kings: March

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2nd March 2020
Every royal life is peppered with milestones, the moments that mark beginnings and ends, filled with joy and sometimes sadness. On Royal Central, we’re charting the famous dates throughout the year in our Calendars of Kings and Queens. And as March gets well and truly…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Princess Patricia of Connaught

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27th February 2020
When Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wed Alexander Ramsay in London in 1919, she more than made her mark. For not only had Patricia wed a man with no royal title.  She had given up her own HRH to become his wife. Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth, second daughter of Victoria’s third son, the Duke of Connaught, walked into Westminster Abbey on February 27th…
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