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What are the Danish New Year 'levees' that bring out the royal family in all their finery?

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3rd January 2025
King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark have just hosted the first New Year’s banquet of their reign. As January gets under way, they will be hosting multiple New Year’s levees. But while we’re glad to start the New Year with some sparkle, what are these events and why are they held?  Levee or banquet: there’s a royal explanation The New Year’s levees are daytime events…
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The eternal queen of fashion strikes again in 2024: how Queen Letizia just keeps reigning

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31st December 2024
There can only be one winner in the most stylish royal stakes for 2024 and there’s no alarms and no surprises here. Queen Letizia of Spain can’t help being chic. If she wears it, you will be, too, very soon and every time she steps out, some one sighs at her superlative style. Pick three, you say, from another bumper year? OK, we’ll try but don’t blame us if we’ve…
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The royal record that switched palaces in 2024

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29th December 2024
For years, the answer to ‘who has reigned longest’ was an easy one, even for people who didn’t follow royalty. Queen Elizabeth II broke plenty of records in the seventy years that she reigned in the United Kingdom. All that changed on September 8th 2022, with the end of the second Elizabethan era. From that point onwards, another queen regnant was the longest reigning monarch…
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The special royal gifts that got everyone talking in 2024

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28th December 2024
The royals like to hand out honours and decorations during state visits or at designated times of the year, and in 2024 we got a bevy of them! Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights. The Royal Family order of King Charles III One of the last mysteries of King Charles III’s accession was finally solved in June, when Queen Camilla debuted the Royal Family Order of King Charles…
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