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The Crown actress gives glimpse into the realities of looking regal

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28th October 2019
Silver screen newcomer Erin Doherty is sharing her insights into what it takes to pull off the put together royal looks we have grown accustomed to. Doherty, 27, will make her acting debut as Princess Anne on the latest season of The Crown. In the press leading up to the release, she gave an in-depth interview to Stella Magazine, an offshoot of The Telegraph. In it, she highlighted how Anne was…
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Review: "A day with The Queen"

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25th October 2019
I was sent this lovely illustrated book by a Portuguese author, Diana Del-Negro for a review. It’s a children’s book that Del-Negro wrote and illustrated herself. She wrote it for her five-year-old daughter, Laura, to “explain that real princesses exist, and also queens.” The short book starts with a greeting by a corgi (The Queen’s beloved breed of dog) named Monty who tells the…
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia start State Visit to South Korea

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23rd October 2019
Following their attendance at the Enthronement Ceremony of Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo, Japan, on 22 October, King Felipe and Queen Letizia flew to South Korea where they will spend two days on a state visit. They arrived in Seoul, South Korea on the morning of 23 October where they were welcomed by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, Park Yang-Woo among others.
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Finding five cards from the Tsarina

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22nd October 2019
Whilst researching on the correspondence of the last Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) of Russia and Princess Marie Bariatinsky, one of the Tsarina’s first maids-of-honour (freilina) in her early years in Russia and a later friend, I discovered a series of…
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Queen Victoria's little-known visit to Spain

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21st October 2019
Whilst on one of her late holidays in the south of France, Queen Victoria made her only visit to Spain. It was a visit that aroused the Queen’s socio-historic curiosity in national culture and peoples, something she often gave expression to in watercolour sketches as vivid pen portraits to record what she saw, alongside her accounts in her Journal. The Spanish visit was also historically…
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