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The Duchess of Sussex deserves so much better than how she has been treated

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1st August 2018
Royal Central’s Editorial Assistant Jess Ilse argues that the Duchess of Sussex deserves so much better than how she has been treated in the media and online. Last year the conversation about women changed due to a reckoning that rippled its way through Hollywood. When the dust settled – though news still breaks of a new scandal every so often – it was with women recognising their power and…
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Queen Victoria's dogs

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1st August 2018
Queen Victoria’s love of dogs provided the inspiration for royal sculpture and painting, as well, of course, the Queen’s journal entries. References to her dogs abound throughout. Interestingly, her life may in one way, be charted through her dogs, because they were with…
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Before they were royal: The life of the Duchess of Gloucester

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31st July 2018
She would go on to live a life of royal duties which led her to be called one of the unsung heroes of the Royal Family, but today we take a look at the life of the Duchess of Gloucester before she married The Queen’s cousin: Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Born Birgitte Eva Henriksen on 20 June 1946 in Odense, Denmark, she is the youngest daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a…
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Spain’s Princess Leonor unrecognisable on first coin

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27th July 2018
Spain’s Leonor, Princess of Asturias is unrecognisable on her first coin that has been issued by the Royal Mint of Spain for the 1300 Anniversary of the Kingdom of Asturias. The coin is also in celebration of Spain’s first proclamation of the Picos de Europa as a National Park, according to Spanish paper, El Pais. The 12-year-old future Queen of Spain is seen on the front of the €30…
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Queen Victoria and the Archbishop

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25th July 2018
Biography is also made up of people in the background; so it is with William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury. The appearances he made in the life of the future Queen Victoria were of extreme significance, in a way that was unique, and whilst these functions formed a natural…
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Royal Cousins and Imperial Russia

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24th July 2018
Princess Alix of Hesse – as the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was known before her marriage to the young Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 – visited Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park on several occasions, as the residence of her maternal aunt, Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein and her cousins. Cumberland Lodge made a circle for Princess Alix around this part of her English family. She was…
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