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Painting by ground breaking artist rediscovered in a royal storage room

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24th September 2023
The Royal Collection Trust has just announced that a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has gone on display at Windsor Castle for the first time in almost two centuries. The announcement comes at the end of a much-needed restoration work that the painting has undergone, as it was misattributed to “French School” and left in disrepair in a Hampton Court Palace storage room. The…
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Queen Rania - a look at Jordan's humanitarian Queen

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23rd September 2023
Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on 31 August 1970, toFaisal Sedki al-Yassin, a pediatric doctor, andIlham Yasmin, both of whom were Palestinian. Her parents moved from the West Bank to Kuwait just before the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. She has one older sister, Dina and one younger brother,Magdi. The family regularly visited their family in the West Bank. For her…
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How many of Henry VIII's queens were crowned?

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22nd September 2023
‘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&#8217…
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Royals and the United Nations: what roles do they have?

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22nd September 2023
The United Nations is the biggest international organism currently in existence, as it unites representatives from more than 190 countries and different international organisations, like the EU and the African Union.  Its purpose as an intergovernmental organisation is to “maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation…
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Mary of Waltham, a tragic teenage royal bride

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22nd September 2023
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…
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The life Princess Margaret lived behind palace walls

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20th September 2023
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdown, was the sister of Queen Elizabeth II and perhaps one of the “rebels” of the Royal Family. During the 1950s and 60s, Margaret struggled as the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to allow her to marry a divorced man. Eventually, she married Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. Ultimately, it all contributed to her years of heavy drinking and smoking and…
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