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Things Haven't Changed: the Duchess of Sussex still deserves better than how she has been treated

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10th February 2019
Royal Central’s Editorial Assistant, Jess Ilse wonders why the Duchess of Sussex just can’t catch a break with the media. Or the Markles.  I wish I could say that in the six months since I wrote my last editorial that things had changed for the better for the Duchess of Sussex. How wrong I was. How naïve? I thought things would change for the better once she’d returned from the August…
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Rare portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots to go on display

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8th February 2019
In the portrait she is a young widow, mourning a husband who had died not long after their wedding and whose death left her free to pursue the power she had been born to wield. Almost five hundred years after it was painted, an image of Mary, Queen of Scots at a crucial moment in her tumultuous royal career is going on show. The painting, by Francois Clouet, was only recently confirmed to be of…
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The Royal Road from Windsor to Morocco

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8th February 2019
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to make a three day visit to Morocco, touching down on February 23rd for a series of engagements carried out at the request of the UK government. As Harry and Meghan prepare for this latest high profile trip, Royal Central takes a look back…
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Floral tributes placed on King George VI's grave on anniversary of his death

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6th February 2019
Flowers are being laid on the grave of George VI at Windsor today to mark the 67th anniversary of his death.  The Queen’s father, who died in his sleep on February 6th 1952, is buried at St. George’s Chapel. A wreath of seasonal flowers in yellow and regal purple is among the tributes being left for the monarch who was 56 when he passed away at Sandringham in Norfolk. He had been king for…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

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2nd February 2019
While a royal wedding dress might grab all the headlines with the almost obligatory tiara coming a close second, no set of regal nuptials would be complete without a bridal bouquet. We might not get round to admiring it until after our fourth discussion about the wedding gown itself but the flowers have their own part in every big royal wedding. That was no different on February 2nd 2002 when…
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