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Preview: Five new documentaries for 'Royals Month' on CBC

<![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

<![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

<![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

<![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

<![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

<![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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Insight

Will Camilla actually be Princess Consort?

<![CDATA[At the beginning of the year, I wrote a blogcalled ‘why Camilla must become our Queen‘. Since its publication, the article became the site’s single most discussed article,receiving over several hundred comments with varying views and numerous email responses to the site’s editors. In the piece, I argued it would create a dangerous precedent for…
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