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What now for Her Majesty The Queen and her Prime Minister?

Extraordinary times and extraordinary questions. For much of her 67 year reign, the Queen has done what every monarch in recent times has done and remained removed from politics. But in the past month, Her Majesty has been drawn into a maelstrom that has ended with the highest court in the UK ruling that her Prime Minister gave her unlawful advice when he told her to prorogue parliament as the sun…
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Diana, Landmines and the HALO Trust

Ahead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s tour of South Africa later this month, Royal Central looks back at the work Diana, Princess of Wales did with the Halo Trust in Angola. It was the 15th of January 1997, and Diana, Princess of Wales was nervous. She’d swapped…
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From Vienna to Versailles: the last, romantic days of Marie Antoinette's bridal procession

All this week, Royal Central’s Elizabeth Jane Timms has been telling the story of Marie Antoinette’s bridal procession as she made her way to her new home in France. Today, she reaches the end of the story and that first, fateful meeting between Marie Antoinette and her groom: On 14 May, the procession reached Compiegne. The first meeting between Marie Antoinette and Dauphin…
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Daughter of Saudi King found guilty of ordering assault on French worker in Paris

Last week, a Paris court found Princess Hassa bint Salman Al Saud guilty of ordering her bodyguard to beat up a French worker in 2016. The Princess was not present at court, where she was found guilty of violence and complicity to hold someone against their will. Princess Hassa was handed a ten-month suspended sentence and fined €10,000. An international arrest warrant was issued for her in…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Constantine and Anne-Marie of Greece

It was a marriage that sealed a famous love story and turned a princess into a queen. On September 18th 1964, royalty from across Europe gathered in Athens to see the continent’s newest monarch wed a bride who had just turned eighteen. Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark’s romance has since weathered political crises and exile – here’s a look back at a very royal wedding…
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