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Dress from Queen's younger years to be sold at auction

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23rd September 2014
<![CDATA[ A dress worn by Princess Elizabeth in 1949 is to be sold at auction on 25th September. The dress was made by Norman Hartnell, who dressed Elizabeth while both Princess and Queen as Royal Clothier. It is made from silk and features a floral pattern in pink and white; the dress’s shape shows off Her Majesty’s renowned slim waist of her younger years, which the dress shows to…
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Another baby for The Cambridges: what does it mean?

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15th September 2014
<![CDATA[Last week I was away on holiday, and heard the news that William and Catherine were expecting their second child. I had just got off the plane in Brussels to catch a connecting flight to Berlin, and I turned my phone on to receive a flurry of messages from a…
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Preview: Five new documentaries for 'Royals Month' on CBC

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10th September 2014
<![CDATA[During September, channel CBC will be showing five brand new documentaries focusing on different members of the royal family for ‘Royals Month’ on the Canadian channel. These enlightening documentaries will reveal more to audiences about the lives of the royals through exclusive interviews with some members of the royal family, commentators and staff members. ‘Royals Month’…
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History Rewind: Mary Queen of Scots crowned

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9th September 2014
<![CDATA[On 9th September 1543, a child that was barely a year old was crowned Queen of Scotland in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle. Mary, Queen of Scots, would go on to be one of the more embattled Queen's in history. Nobody would be surprised, considering the…
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History Rewind: Birth of Queen Elizabeth I

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7th September 2014
<![CDATA[On 7th September 1533, Anne Boleyn gave birth to King Henry VIII's second child at Greenwich Palace. Disappointingly for him, it was another girl. Elizabeth’s childhood was a somewhat difficult and complex one after losing her mother at the tender age…
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Her Majesty The Queen and the exploding post box

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5th September 2014
<![CDATA[The year is 1952 and Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation is fast approaching. But who would have ever thought that it wouldn't be the upcoming historical event that would make the national news, but a lonely and quite boring red post box in the Inch area of Edinburgh. Well it did and for quite explosive reasons… When Her Majesty ascended the Throne back in 1952, she became…
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Diana's wedding dress returned to William and Harry

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3rd September 2014
<![CDATA[The wedding dress of Diana, Princess of Wales, has now been returned to her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. The famous dress was designed by David and Elizabeth Emmanuel, and featured a 25ft train, puffed sleeves and a ruffled collar. It has been kept on…
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The women behind the Crown: Influential Queen Mothers - Empress Matilda

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26th August 2014
<![CDATA[ “Great by birth, greater by marriage, greatest in her offspring: here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry” – The epitaph on Empress Matilda’s tomb In the first blog of this series, we looked at the prominent medieval figure of Eleanor of Aquitaine. However, Eleanor wasn’t the only dominant female, or ‘Queen Mother’ to be…
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