British Royals

Towns around the UK make their bid for Platinum Jubilee glory

Towns around the UK are finalising bids for a very special celebration linked to the Platinum Jubilee – the chance to become a city. City status will be granted to several places around the country to mark the 70th anniversary of The Queen’s reign and several high profile contenders are already staking their claim to the prize. Southend-on-Sea in Essex, Medway in Kent, Swindon in…
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The Queen asked to pardon martyred Abbot of Glastonbury

The Queen is set to be asked to pardon a sixteenth-century abbot posthumously after he was hanged, drawn, and quartered on 15 November 1539. Blessed Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, was executed for treason in the aftermath of Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries. Along with Blessed John Wichter (Abbot of Colchester) and Blessed Hugh Faringdon (Abbot of Reading), they were…
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Princess Alexandra pays tribute to medical work during the pandemic

Princess Alexandra has met medics who have used their experiences of the pandemic to create an artwork. The Queen’s cousin spent the afternoon of September 16th 2021 at a reception for the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity. The charity supports the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals in their work against heart and lung disease. It helps provide treatments and…
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The Queen helped piper as his wife was sick

One of The Queen’s royal pipers has revealed how the monarch stepped in to support him and his family following his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Speaking to BBC Scotland, Pipe Major Scott Methven, who served as The Queen’s piper at Balmoral Castle while she was in residence, said that she “supported me with everything that went on in my private life.” Methven’s wife was diagnosed…
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