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Letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie sells for £25,000

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8th May 2014
<![CDATA[A letter written by Bonnie Prince Charlie to his cousin, King Louis XV of France, asking for his help in overthrowing the British Monarchy, was sold for £25,000 on Wednesday. Prince Charles Edward Stuart, also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the ‘Young Pretender’, was the grandson of the Stuart King James II of England, and a claimant to the throne. After James II, a…
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Review of episode one of The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

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2nd May 2014
<![CDATA[Here at Royal Central, we were delighted to have the chance to interview Historic Royal Palaces’ Chief Curator Dr Lucy Worsley last month about her upcoming television series on the first Georgian Kings of Great Britain. Last night, BBC Four aired the first episode of the series The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, which has been produced in light of the 300th…
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Opinion

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first official day in Canberra

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24th April 2014
<![CDATA[While we retain the Monarch as head of state in Australia it isn’t to often that the Australian Royal Family makes the news here, but local media has been sent into meltdown with the royal tour currently underway in Australia. You can’t turn on a television, read a paper or news website without seeing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Everywhere you go that has had or is…
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A Quick Review of the Six Wives of Henry the 8th by Alison Weir

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4th April 2014
<![CDATA[ The Queen, the Lover, the Mother, the Outcast, the Victim and the Survivor; the six wives of Henry the 8th. Historian and Tudor expert Alison Weir brings to life these six remarkable women in her book titled The Six Wives of Henry the 8th. The book is divided into three main chapters. In the first, the reader is introduced to the ‘Princess from Spain’,  Catherine of…
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