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Preview: Reinventing The Royals - Episode One

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14th February 2015
After being postponed for broadcast earlier this year, a new date for the transmission of Reinventing The Royals has been confirmed by the BBC as the 19th February. This two-part series looks at the ways in which the Royal Family and the media have established an extraordinary and dynamic relationship over the past decades. In the first episode – called Crisis – Steve Hewlett examines…
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Monarchy Monday: Timeless romances within The Royal Family

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9th February 2015
With Valentines Day at the end of this week, the hopeless romantic in me couldn’t help but take a look back at some of the timeless romances within The Royal Family. Easily the most famous of these romances would be the one between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. When Queen Victoria was to wed she had her choice of many eligible husbands, yet her heart only belonged to her first cousin…
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Notable Names: Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

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2nd February 2015
Born in 1757, Georgiana Spencer became a prominent noble within British history, but did so for various reasons. From a young age Georgiana was her mother’s favourite, and was said to be quite beautiful. Being born into privilege to John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, gave Georgiana all the makings of proper young lady. On Georgiana’s seventeenth birthday, she walked…
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Monarchy Monday: 'Fly, fly away' for Prince William

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26th January 2015
If there was one thing Prince William always knew he would do, it was fly. With one of his first words being ‘plane’ a career in the Royal Air Force just seemed suiting. After becoming a Flying Officer in the RAF, Prince William took an intense four month…
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Petition presses for Catholic ceremony for Richard III

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24th January 2015
There has been yet another development in the plans to rebury King Richard III later this year. A recent petition started to have Richard III’s remains taken to a Catholic chapel will soon be handed to church leaders for deliberation. Following the discovery ofRichard III’s bonesin a car park in Leicester in 2012, it was announced that the late King would be buried in…
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