State & Ceremonial

Alfie Boe, Griff Rhys Jones & Olivia Colman among those named in The Queen's Birthday Honours

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7th June 2019
Alfie Boe, Griff Rhys Jones and Bear Grylls are among the names who are being recognised in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019. In a honours list which is dominated by ordinary people doing extraordinary things in their communities, there are relatively few famous faces receiving awards this year. Alfie Boe is one such name who receives an OBE for services to music and charity. Mr Boe…
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Queen Victoria's earliest memories

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6th June 2019
The earliest memories of a historical personage are extraordinarily important, as not only do they reveal first consciousness of their world and circumstances but crucially, what they remembered first. They tell snippets of true events, as they saw them. Of course, we know…
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'Once more a supreme test has to be faced': George VI's words on D-Day

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5th June 2019
As D-Day took place, King George VI spoke to the people of Britain and the Empire it still retained. His speech was set to inspire, to comfort and to look to the future with determination as World War Two entered a new phase, one which he himself referred to as ‘a fight to win the final victory for the good cause’. As tens of thousands of troops prepared to battle to free Europe from…
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State & Ceremonial

The Queen's speech at the State Banquet in full

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3rd June 2019
“Mr President, I am delighted to welcome you and Mrs Trump to Buckingham Palace this evening, just twelve months after our first meeting at Windsor Castle. Visits by American Presidents always remind us of the close and longstanding friendship between the United Kingdom and the United States, and I am so glad that we have another opportunity to demonstrate the immense importance that both…
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State & Ceremonial

The Queen welcomes President Trump to Buckingham Palace

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3rd June 2019
The Queen has welcomed the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to Buckingham Palace as his State Visit to the UK officially gets underway. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived left the US Ambassador’s residence for Buckingham Palace by helicopter. The three-mile journey ended as Marine One landed on the garden of the palace. As the Trumps exited the…
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