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A look at how Americans celebrate the US Thanksgiving - the favourite holiday of the Duchess of Sussex

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28th November 2019
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, which just happens to be the favourite holiday of the Duchess of Sussex who was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. And no doubt, this is a holiday she will make sure Archie, and any siblings he may have, celebrate. So, how do Americans celebrate the holiday? Many watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thanksgiving morning either on…
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HistoryHistoryNorway

Finding Queen Maud in Oslo

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26th November 2019
This year, it is 150 years since Norway’s Queen Maud was born. This is marked by Royal Central with several articles where we look at the life of the British princess who married a Danish prince and ended up as a Norwegian queen. In Oslo today, the city that Maud once called her home, we can find many traces of the queen. Take a look at some of them here, so if you visit Oslo sometime in the…
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The lost tiara of Queen Maud

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26th November 2019
This year, it is 150 years since the Norwegian Queen Maud was born in London. Much has been written about the queen who was elected to be monarch together with her husband as a new Norwegian royal couple in an independent Norway in 1905. When Queen Maud came to Norway, she…
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Grace's children: Who is Princess Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover?

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23rd November 2019
Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite was born in the Princes Palace in Monte Carlo, the capital of the small sun-kissed principality of Monaco, on 23 January 1957. The eldest child of Their Serene Highnesses, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and Grace, Princess of Monaco, she bore the title of Hereditary Princess of Monaco from the time of her birth until the birth of her younger brother, Prince…
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The day a royal stag night made headlines round the world

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20th November 2019
On this day, 72 years ago, newspaper readers woke up to the story of a young prince and his friends partying ahead of one of the biggest royal weddings of them all. For on the night before he said ‘I do’ to the future queen, Prince Philip enjoyed a stag night and it was caught on camera. OK, there are no drinking games for you to pore over here. But as he prepared to wed a monarch in…
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