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History Rewind: Windsor gems sell for record price

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3rd April 2014
<![CDATA[ On 3 April 1987 the late Duchess of Windsor’s jewellery fetched £31m ($50m) at auction in Switzerland. The sum was six times the expected figure projected the collection would garner. It was said that 1,000 bidders and 300 members of the media packed into an enormous tent constructed by Sotheby’s next to Lake Geneva for the two-day auction. Across the pond in New York…
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The Queen's never given a press interview... but she's certainly come close!

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26th March 2014
<![CDATA[Despite the worldwide media attention she has received during her long reign, there is one thing for which The Queen is famous in both in press circles and the wider world – that is the fact that she has never given a press interview. Every other member of the present Royal Family, including Her Majesty’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh, have given interviews with the media…
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97 years since the fall of Imperial Russia

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20th March 2014
<![CDATA[ For 634 years, some form of monarchy had been in operation in Russia, first as the Principality of Moscow, then as the Tsardom of Russia, and more recently, the Russian Empire with some of the most high profile monarchs to ever reign in Europe from Ivan the Terrible to Catherine the Great. Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia, as a successful revolution forced him to abdicate.
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Prince Albert – A truly remarkable man

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15th March 2014
<![CDATA[In recent years, there seems to have been a surfeit of books and documentaries presenting a very unjust image of Prince Albert as a dour and humourless man, driven by a desire for power, and with little understanding of his children’s needs. Although this…
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The princess from Wales who gave her name to Europe's newest royal

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1st March 2014
<![CDATA[Europe’s newest royal, Princess Leonore Lilian Maria of Sweden, Duchess of Gotland, shares her first name with one of Sweden’s most famous monarchs. Princess Madeleine of Sweden has named her daughter after her Welsh born great aunt While Ulrike Eleonora, queen regnant and queen consort of the country in the 18th century, is quite possibly the inspiration for the first…
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