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Prince Harry and Walking With the Wounded teams delayed... again!

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25th November 2013
The WWTW Teams are grounded at Novo due to inclement weather and are unable to continue their ski training. Once again Prince Harry and the Walking With the Wounded teams face yet another weather related setback. Adding to their previous delays and departures is the current delay to leave for base camp as of Monday. Extremely high winds and snowstorms have again put the South Pole Allied Challenge…
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Prince Harry finally flies out to Novo, Antartica

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23rd November 2013
After a 48 weather delay, Prince Harry and the Walking With the Wounded Team were finally given the all clear to fly to Novo (Novolazarevskaya Station) the Russian air base located near the edge of the Antarctic on Friday. After a six hour flight, Harry and the team landed…
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University of Oxford academic suggests how Richard III could be reburied

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22nd November 2013
Alexandra Buckle, an academic from St Anne’s and St Hilda’s colleges, Oxford, has recently been looking in greater detail at the way in which medieval royal funerals and reburial services were conducted. This new scholarly work has given significant indications towards how Richard III should be reburied in the near future. Dr Buckle is a liturgical advisor to the committee who are planning…
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Sri Lanka: Prince Charles officially opens the CHOGM meeting

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16th November 2013
Prince Charles delivers the opening welcome at the CHOGM in Sri Lanka Friday. Amid the controversy of human rights violations, The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 began in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Friday. Approximately 3,500 delegates which include the Heads of Government and other officials were in attendance. The meeting had a theme of ‘Growth with Equity: Inclusive…
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Channel 4 documentary reveals insight into childhood of Queen Victoria’s grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II

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14th November 2013
Kaiser Wilhelm II is most notably recognised as the man who led Germany into World War One in 1914. He consequently was leading his people into outright war against his own mother’s country. From this new Channel 4 documentary, ‘Queen Victoria and the Crippled Kaiser’, audiences can learn about a collection of hidden royal letters that have recently been unearthed which show both the close…
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