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How sport showcases are bringing Prince George and Princess Charlotte on to the public stage

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16th July 2024
Prince George and Princess Charlotte have shown again that they are following in mum and dad’s footsteps with strong support for sport. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been regulars at many sporting events throughout the years and now their children are carrying on the tradition. It shows the importance this new generation of royals puts on all kinds of sport. That was very clear at…
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John, the 'lost prince' of the House of Windsor

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15th July 2024
He was the fifth son and the youngest of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary and, briefly, a star of the Royal Family. Now, over a century on from his life, his story continues to fascinate. Royal Central looks at the story of Prince John, the forgotten son of…
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Princess Leonor’s first foreign honour has an ancient history

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14th July 2024
As she undertook her first official visit to Portugal, Princess Leonor was given the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The Order, which has three homonyms around the world in the Holy See, the House of Orléans-Bragança and Kongo (an ancient African Kingdom located in the territory of modern day Angola), has very ancient origins, as it is…
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Is this queen England's greatest ever consort?

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12th July 2024
On a hot summer day in 1543, a young widow married an ageing and much wed king in a ceremony that took many by surprise. By the time Katherine Parr said ‘I do’ to Henry VIII in the Queen’s Closet at Hampton Court Palace on July 12th1543, his five previous unions…
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The unhappy royal bride who links Monaco to a very famous throne

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10th July 2024
While some links between royal houses are well known and rather close, others are a little more distant and perhaps all the more interesting for that. And although the links between Albert II and Charles III might be stretched, they are still there. The connection between the House of Windsor and the House of Grimaldi begins in the 19th century when Albert I, Prince of Monaco married a British…
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The princess who gave up being HRH - for love

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10th July 2024
Many of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s grandchildren married into various royal families across Europe. Not all did, though. Princess Patricia of Connaught was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia, and…
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A royal rarity - an emerald engagement ring

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10th July 2024
It’s rare to see a royal engagement ring featuring an emerald. The striking stone features in very few of these most romantic pieces of jewellery but it has a starring role in the ring worn by a princess who will walk down the aisle at this summer’s biggest royal…
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The Palais-Royal: from a prince of the church to revolution

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9th July 2024
While we often associate the French royals with the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre Palace, they owned far more than that over the centuries. The Palais-Royal in Paris began as a cardinal’s palace but made its way into royal hands. The Palais-Royal is in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on Rue Saint-Honoré. Architect Jacques Lemercier was commissioned in the late 1620s to create a…
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