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New findings on Queen Victoria and the midwife who delivered her

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11th November 2019
I first encountered Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold back in 2018 when I was researching the birth of the future Queen Victoria, ahead of this year’s bicentenary. Madame Siebold was the skilled German obstetrician who by an extraordinary circumstance, assisted at the births in 1819 of both Princess Victoria and that of her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a…
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The first American Princess of Monaco

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11th November 2019
American by birth, hugely popular and credited with helping turn Monaco from a forgotten principality into a European hotspot – but this isn’t the story of Grace Kelly. Almost seven decades before her famous marriage to Prince Rainier III, another US born…
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Princess Haya's website taken offline as trial over custody of her children is set to start

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11th November 2019
Update: The website is back online as of Tuesday, 12 November. As the court hearings in London are set to begin over the custody of the two children between Princess Haya of Jordan, 45, and Rule of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, 70, today, Princess Haya’s website has been pulled offline. The Princess’s official website, hosted in the UAE, does not load and shows…
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Princesses of Monaco: Ippolita Trivulzio

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10th November 2019
Ippolita Trivulzio holds the distinction of being the first woman to hold the title of Princess of Monaco. Today, we are continuing our series by taking a look at the first princess consort in Monaco. Ippolita Trivulzio was born in 1600 in Palazzo Trivulzio, Duchy of…
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King George V and the first Remembrance Day

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10th November 2019
On this remembrance weekend, Her Majesty The Queen will once again lead the nation at the National Service of Remembrance, held at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Sunday. The service, which includes a two-minute silence at 11 am, remembers British and Commonwealth forces, civilian servicemen and women and those from allied nations who have served in every conflict since the First World War…
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How history's killer queens conquered kings

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9th November 2019
The power on a chessboard lies with the queen and now new research indicates the same goes for royal history. Experts have found that European queens were more likely to go to war and had greater success in expanding their realms than any of their male counterparts. The…
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90 Years of Grace: The Hollywood Princess

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9th November 2019
Though her acting career was short-lived compared to her role as the Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly was certainly one of the top stars in Hollywood in the mid-1950s. Starting in live television and transitioning to Hollywood roles—and ultimately winding up as an…
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Norway’s Crown Prince Couple possibly involved in Norwegian-Russian spy exchange

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8th November 2019
Norway’s Crown Prince Couple, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit, reportedly could have been involved in an ongoing spy case that has affected Norwegian-Russian relations. This was reported by Norwegian state television NRK on Thursday evening. The case began in December 2017 when the Norwegian spy Frode Berg was arrested in Russia. The FSB, who arrested him, believed he was…
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