State & Ceremonial

Arise Sir Nick Clegg - former Deputy Prime Minister to receive knighthood from The Queen

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25th December 2017
Nick Clegg will receive a knighthood from The Queen in the New Years Honours list for his services to politics. Mr Clegg, who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for five years, will be named in the list when it is released later this week according to reports. Senior Liberal Democrat sources have told the Daily Mail that the former party leader will be knighted next year. A Liberal…
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Top 5 outgoing State Visits from Queen Elizabeth II

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21st December 2017
Queen Elizabeth has undertaken 94 official State Visits during her reign, plus two State Visits in her capacity as Queen of Canada (she visited the United States twice in the ‘50s). A State Visit is when a foreign head of state is invited to visit a country by that country’s head of state. State Visits differ from Official Visits, as an Official Visit is when high-ranking government officials…
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Young man arrested for climbing wall of Buckingham Palace

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12th December 2017
On Monday, a 24-year-old man was arrested when he tried to climb over the wall at Buckingham Palace. The Metropolitan Police arrested the man three minutes after he made it over the low outer perimeter fence on suspicion of trespassing. The incident was not related to terrorism. A statement from the police read: “The man was not found in possession of any offensive weapons and the incident is…
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Christmas Trees: A Royal History

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6th December 2017
Prince Albert is generally credited with introducing the Christmas tree to Britain, but in fact, it was the work of his wife’s grandmother, Queen Charlotte. Like Prince Albert, Charlotte was born and raised in Germany, where the tradition of bringing a tree inside at…
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The Queen's first Christmas 1926: As Meghan looks ahead to her first royal Christmas, we look back at Princess Elizabeth's

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5th December 2017
As Meghan Markle prepares to spend her first Christmas with the royal family at Sandringham, her fiancé’s grandmother may recall fondly her own early Christmases at the much-loved Norfolk estate. One such occasion the Queen would be unable to remember, however, is her first one, in 1926, when she was just eight months old. Christmas 1926 was special in several ways. Until that year, Princess…
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