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Royal Wedding Dress Designers: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen

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29th April 2019
When Kate Middleton stepped out of the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI at Westminster Abbey on the morning of 29 April 2011, the world finally learned who created her wedding dress: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.To most of the world, it was a well-kept secret. But Burton’s name had been floated around as a serious contender for the coveted commission for a while before the wedding. The Sunday Times…
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A short history of King's Day

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26th April 2019
Royal Central takes a look at the tradition of celebrating the monarch’s birthday that began as Princess’s Day. In the 19th century, King William III of the Netherlands faced quite a bit of unpopularity but his four-year-old daughter Wilhelmina, his future…
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Did the White Queen die of plague?

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25th April 2019
Her story is amongst the most controversial of all the Queens of England and now a new twist has appeared in the tale of Elizabeth Woodville. An expert at the National Archives in London has found a document suggesting that the consort who revolutionised royalty may have…
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BREAKING: State Visit to the UK by President Trump confirmed for June

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23rd April 2019
Buckingham Palace has announced that the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, will make a State Visit to the United Kingdom in the first week of June. President Trump, accompanied by the US First Lady Melania Trump, will make their trip between June 3rd and June 5th 2019. The Queen has formally invited the couple to make a State Visit and the Royal Household confirmed on…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Who were The Queen's bridesmaids?

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22nd April 2019
The wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip in November 1947 was a day of celebration in post-war Britain. The ceremony was broadcast to a worldwide audience of approximately 200 million people and as the princess arrived at Westminster Abbey with her father, King George VI, she was attended by eight bridesmaids. Embed from Getty Images HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent The daughter of the…
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Who was Ida Bonanomi: Dresser to Queen Victoria

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18th April 2019
But for the moving memorial that Queen Victoria erected to her and for a letter in which this is described, the name of Ida Bonanomi might have been completely forgotten in historical terms. Thanks to these, this is not the case. It can be found in Edinburgh’s Rosebank Cemetery and stands in the avenue containing the grandest of the monuments, itself an impressive example of mid-Victorian…
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