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The Queen looks charming in coral at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding

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18th May 2019
The Queen has brought a burst of spring sunshine to Windsor as she opted for a coral for the big royal wedding of the year. Her Majesty wore chose a coat and hat in the shade, worn with a floral print dress, for the marriage of Lady Gabriella Windsor and Thomas Kingston at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, this afternoon. The outfit was designed by Stewart Parvin and the hat was the creation of…
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The Tower of London celebrates as baby ravens make their debut

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17th May 2019
It’s said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London then the building, and the kingdom it protects, will fall. So there’s no surprise that there are celebrations all round at the famous royal landmark as four chicks have been born within its ancient walls – the first to arrive there in thirty years. To make the arrival even more patriotic the chicks actually hatched on…
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Royal Weddings: The wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden to Chris O’Neill

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15th May 2019
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…
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Queen Victoria's presents to her grandchildren

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14th May 2019
As the ‘Grandmother of Europe’, as Queen Victoria was popularly termed, her very numerous grandchildren could, of course, expect to receive a variety of charming presents for their birthdays, just as we might treasure things sent to us by our grandmothers. These presents…
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A German Princess's memories of Queen Victoria

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13th May 2019
To Queen Victoria, she was ‘dear Marie Erbach’. That was what the Queen called Princess Marie of Battenberg, later Princess zu Erbach-Schönberg, whose memoirs first appeared in English in 1925, printed by London publishers George Allen & Unwin. Princess Marie Karoline of Battenberg was born in 1852 and married in 1871 Gustav Ernst, Count, later Prince zu Erbach-Schönberg (1840-1908). She…
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