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Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from jobs in the 1960s, papers show

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3rd June 2021
Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from jobs in the 1960s according to information discovered in royal household archive documents. In the documents unearthed by The Guardian newspaper, Lord Tryon, the keeper of the privy purse at the time spoke of minorities in the royal workforce. In 1968, The Queen’s financial manager informed civil servants that “it was not, in fact, the…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

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3rd June 2021
It was the wedding that changed the Royal Family forever. The marriage of Edward, Duke of Windsor to Wallis Simpson on 3 June 1937 was the final act of a dramatic series of events that had reverberated around the world. For, of course, the groom had given up his throne to marry his bride and the crisis his Abdication had produced, less than six months earlier, had shaken the House of Windsor to…
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Street parties and community celebrations to be held in 2022 for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

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2nd June 2021
Excitement is building across Britain as Buckingham Palace announced a programme of special events to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, and The Queen is inviting the public to join in the party. As part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, people are encouraged “to share friendship, food and fun with neighbours” during The Big Jubilee Lunch on 5 June 2022.
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Huge year-long celebrations for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee revealed by Buckingham Palace

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2nd June 2021
Buckingham Palace has unveiled a bumper programme of celebrations to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee In 2022 where she will mark 70 years on the throne. Her Majesty will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, having succeeded her father as monarch on 6th February 1952 when Her Majesty was only 25 years old. On Wednesday, a year-long programme of Platinum…
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