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She was called ‘the White Rose’ and her time as queen lasted just one summer. Geraldine, last Queen of Albania, reigned as consort for just a year before she and her royal family had to flee an Italian invasion.Though she spent the rest of her life zigzagging the world, trying to find a place to settle, Queen Geraldine never gave up promoting her son’s interests as an uncrowned…

‘Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.’ That sad little rhyme, summing up the fates of Henry VIII’s six wives, is familiar to many. But while just about everyone knows that the monarch with a thing for wedding cake said ‘I do’ six times only to turn sour, and then some, on the majority of the women he married, the details of his consorts&#8217…

On an autumn day, in 1344, a little girl was born to a famous king and queen. She entered the expected role of a royal daughter from birth as her future husband, an important political ally, was already living in the regal nursery she would call home. This royal baby spent her life preparing to marry and make an alliance that would strengthen her father’s power and she is best known to history…

Hats may fall into and out of fashion but there’s one set of people who are always expected to top off their outfits with such style statements and that’s royalty.And as autumn approaches, a rather unexpected contender for royal hat of the year has staked their claim to the 2023 title.However, she has her dad to thank for her sartorial choice becoming public knowledge.As…