State & Ceremonial

Arise Sir Lewis Hamilton - The Queen to knight Formula One’s most successful driver

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22nd November 2020
Lewis Hamilton will be knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours list recognising his contributions to the sport of Formula One. According to The Sun on Sunday, Mr Hamilton will be among the names to feature in the soon-to-be released honours list following his impressive history making feat just last week when he won his seventh world championship. Mr Hamilton’s win in the Turkish Grand…
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State & Ceremonial

An update on the theft of the £3.5 million Portland tiara

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20th November 2020
Court proceedings are underway over the theft of the Portland tiara which was stolen from from the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire back in November 2018. Legal proceedings are active meaning only limited information can be published at this stage of the judicial process. However, it can be reported that a preliminary hearing took place at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday 19th November in…
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Royal Wedding Flowers: Princess Anne

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14th November 2020
The only daughter of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh is known for her down to earth, no-nonsense approach to life and in many ways, the flowers chosen by Princess Anne for her wedding in 1973 to Captain Mark Phillips were that attitude in petal form. As she became the…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips

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14th November 2020
She was the first of The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s children to marry and her big day set the template for the royal celebrations that would follow in its wake. Princess Anne’s wedding to Mark Phillips, on 14 November 1973, was a huge state occasion with a massive television audience that captured imaginations around the world. The bride might be famously down to earth but her first…
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10 facts about David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon

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3rd November 2020
Learn more about the Earl of Snowdon, the son of the late Princess Margaret and nephew of The Queen, on his 59th birthday: David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones was born on November 3, 1961, in Clarence House to Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the Countess and Earl of Snowdon.  He is the older brother of Lady Sarah Chatto and is first cousins with Prince Charles, Princess…
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