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The Crown is acknowledged by Hollywood royalty as it grabs a string of Golden Globe nominations

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12th December 2023
The Crown has been recognised by Hollywood royalty with several notable nominations for the 2024 Golden Globes.  The hit Netflix drama focusing on the modern House of Windsor received four Golden Globe nominations. The show has been nominated for Best Television Series, Drama, a substantial achievement on its own. Several individual actors have also been nominated for Golden Globes.
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IN PHOTOS: Princess Sonam Yangden

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9th December 2023
Bhutan’s newest princess has been named Sonam Yangden Wangchuck. The Royal Office for Media released several images to unveil the newborn royal who was born on 9th September 2023. Photo: Royal Office for Media Royal Office for Media The Princess is carried into her naming ceremony by her father, King Jigme Khesar. Photo: Roya Office for Media A family photo showing Queen Jetsun…
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Bhutan's newest princess named

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9th December 2023
Bhutan’s royal family has revealed the name of their newest princess with several photographs to debut the newborn. The only daughter of King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun Pema has been named Sonam Yangden Wangchuck. She shares her name with her paternal aunt…
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The romance and drama of the Winter Queen

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8th December 2023
Elizabeth Stuart, often referred to as The Winter Queen, was born on 19 August 1595 to James VI of Scotland, who was also James I of Great Britain, and Anne of Denmark in Falkland Palace, Scotland. In the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace, Elizabeth was christened in November of the same year. Named in honour of Elizabeth I, the early years of her lifewere spent inLinlithgow Palace.
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History

The king who was crowned on Christmas Day

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7th December 2023
For almost a thousand years, coronation services have taken place at Westminster Abbey, in times of peace and strife. The sovereign sometimes arrives at the Abbey a popular figure; sometimes, they’re deeply unpopular. More often than not, they’re crowned by birthright…
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The last Christmas of a great queen

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6th December 2023
Queen Victoria spent her last Christmas at Osborne in 1900. It was forty years exactly since Prince Albert had celebrated his final Christmas in 1860 at Windsor, the setting for so many happy family festivities in the past. Prince Albert did not live to see Christmas 1861, dying on 14 December in the same room in which with strange historical prescience, George IV and William IV had also died, in…
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