State & Ceremonial

BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2021: Dame Arlene Phillips, Dame Prue Leith and Roy Hodgson CBE amongst those honoured by The Queen

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11th June 2021
Arlene Phillips, Prue Leith and Roy Hodgson are amongst the famous names who are being recognised in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021. In a year that has seen a pandemic test the strength and resolve of the country, it is unsurprising that almost 23% of recipients are recognised for their services in relation to Covid-19. Restaurateur, chef and television presenter, Prue Leith, leads…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Chris O'Neill

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8th June 2021
After a broken engagement a few years earlier, Princess Madeleine of Sweden finally found the love of her life after fleeing to New York City to heal her broken heart. There, through mutual friends, she met American-British financier Christopher “Chris” O’Neill. They appeared for the first time in public together in January 2011 and the relationship might have stayed quiet for…
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Taking a look at Villa Solbacken

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5th June 2021
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden’s home, Villa Solbacken, is a beautiful estate located along the outskirts of the KungligaDjurgården (“Royal Game Park”) in Stockholm.Djurgården has been owned the Swedish Royal Family since the…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Princess Desiree of Sweden

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5th June 2021
It was a royal wedding with a recycled gown worn by a woman who gave up her royal status for love. When Princess Desiree of Sweden got married, she left her HRH status at the altar to be with the man she loved. Royal Wedding Rewind heads back to June 1964 for the wedding of Desiree and Baron Niclas Silfvershiold. The princess was the second of the four sisters of Carl Gustaf of Sweden to marry…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

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3rd June 2021
It was the wedding that changed the Royal Family forever. The marriage of Edward, Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson on 3 June 1937 was the final act of a dramatic series of events that had reverberated around the world. For, of course, the groom had given up his throne to marry his bride and the crisis his Abdication had produced, less than six months earlier, had shaken the House of Windsor to…
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