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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 that all true biography begins before birth and that event could hardly be expected to count amongst any of even the very…
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British RoyalsState & Ceremonial

Who were the guests at last night's state banquet?

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4th June 2019
Day one of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom ended with a regal state banquet at Buckingham Palace. So, who were the guests that toasted to The Queen and President? The British Royal Family was represented by Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of York, Earl and Countess…
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State & Ceremonial

Guests arrive at Buckingham Palace for State Banquet with President Trump

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3rd June 2019
Guests have arrived at Buckingham Palace for a State Banquet alongside President Trump. The banquet is being held in the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace and will see President Trump and the First Lady sat with members of The Royal Family and around 170 other guests. The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, and the Duke of Sussex are among some of…
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History

From Scotland with love: Queen Victoria

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3rd June 2019
Queen Victoria’s visited Balmoral in her beloved Scottish Highlands in the late autumn of 1900. The Queen could not know it, but it was the last time that she would see the new castle which Prince Albert had erected in her words as his ‘own work… as at Osborne’ and which had become a box of intensely personal memories. So deeply did the Queen feel her first visit to Balmoral after Prince…
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