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The Queen's Assistant Private Secretary becomes the latest senior Buckingham Palace official to resign

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7th August 2017
The Queen’s Assistant Private Secretary, Samantha Cohen, has resigned – the latest senior Buckingham Palace aide to leave the Royal Household in a matter of weeks. Ms Cohen was widely seen in royal circles as Her Majesty’s No 3, but handed her notice in following the resignation of The Queen’s Private Secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt last week. Ms Cohen has been working in The Royal…
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The Centenary of the House of Windsor

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17th July 2017
Today marks the century of a momentous decision, but one borne out of potential crisis and some would argue a very good call as European history panned out. Queen Victoria, had taken the decision in the nineteenth century to give the Royal House her husband’s title. Hence, she and subsequent monarch’s would-be members of the House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, previously since the reign of George I…
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On This Day in 1982: The Queen fends off bedroom intruder

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9th July 2017
On this day in 1982, an intruder managed to evade security and break into Buckingham Palace making his way into The Queen’s bedroom whilst she was in residence. This incident is to this day one of the worst royal security breaches in modern history, with The Queen only managing to get help when she offered the intruder a cigarette. The intruder was an unemployed decorator, Michael Fagan, who…
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Bentley Priory: Where a British Queen died

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30th June 2017
The Grade II* listed mansion of Bentley Priory in Stanmore, in the London Borough of Harrow, is best known for the vital role it played during the Battle of Britain when the building formed the setting for Headquarters Fighter Command. The Priory remained an RAF base until 2008, when the offices finally moved to RAF Northolt, after which plans began to transform the Priory into a Museum, a project…
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