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Beginnings, endings and a few nerves mark the first New Year's speech of King Frederik X of Denmark

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31st December 2024
The King of Denmark said out loud what a lot of his subjects were thinking as he delivered the royal New Year’s address for the first time – can anyone other than Queen Margrethe actually make the speech? It turned out that the answer was yes even though the new king made no secret of the pressure he felt in taking on this most important of royal duties. Exactly a year after his…
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Prince William and the hardest year of his life

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30th December 2024
When the Prince of Wales declares that 2024 has been the hardest year of his life, you sit back and take stock of just what that means. With his father and his wife both dealing with their own health scares, it fell to Prince William and Queen Camilla to lead the Royal…
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A year of controversy sees royal family's popularity drop

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30th December 2024
To hark back to an infamous speech once given by Queen Elizabeth II, I don’t imagine that 2024 will be a year that any Norwegian royal looks back on “with undiluted pleasure.” From King Harald falling gravely ill abroad to all the controversies and legal issues surrounding Marius Borg Høiby, it hasn’t been an easy year for the royals. Let’s take a look back on 10 of the biggest…
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How Queen Camilla became the cornerstone of the Royal Family in 2024

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28th December 2024
While the royals themselves haven’t referred to this past year as an ‘Annus Horribilis’ publicly, royal watchers the world over seemed poised to at many moments. From King Charles’s cancer diagnosis to that of the Princess of Wales’s, personal turmoil and other health challenges, it’s not been an easy year for the Royal Family. But through it all, Queen Camilla has kept her head up and…
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The 5 best tiara moments of 2024

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28th December 2024
How to narrow down all of the exciting tiara appearances this year into five choices? It was hard work but these are the ones I can’t stop thinking about! Queen Camilla expands her tiara collection. Again. One thing can’t be said about Queen Camilla? She doesn’t…
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Faith and hope at the heart of very personal King's Speech from Charles III

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25th December 2024
King Charles has given his most personal Christmas address so far as he reflected on a year that had brought many challenges but also much hope. In his Christmas Day broadcast, The King spoke of public and personal issues and praised those who help others. The speech began with words of gratitude and admiration for the veterans of D-Day and for their comrades who never returned home. His…
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