The Gloucesters

The Duchess of Gloucester walks 11,000 steps each day as part of a challenge to honour those who have died from prostate cancer

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23rd March 2021
The Duchess of Gloucester has been taking part in the March the Month challenge this March to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer UK. As their Patron, she has been walking every day in honour of the 11,000 men who die from prostate cancer every year in the UK. The March the Month challenges people to walk 11,000 steps every day for the men who lose their lives to prostate cancer. It…
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Prince Charles and his Greek Ancestry

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21st March 2021
Last week it was announced that Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall would travel to Greece later this month and attend its Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations.  This will be Charles’s third visit to a country where his royal ancestry goes back three generations. The Prince of Wales’s great-grandfather, King George I of Greece, was the…
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British Royals

Letters from Diana sell for over £67,900 at auction

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21st March 2021
A collection of letters written by Diana, Princess of Wales, to her friend Roger Bramble have sold at auction for over £67,900. The collection, which numbers nearly 40 letters written between 7 August 1990 and 16 May 1997, was sold through David Lay Auctioneers by a young relative of Bramble’s. Bramble, who’d known Diana since her childhood and had been a confidant of hers throughout…
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Trooping the Colour is cancelled for second year in a row

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19th March 2021
For the second time amid the coronavirus pandemic, Trooping the Colour will not take place. The event, marking The Queen’s official birthday, usually takes place in June. However, owing to the pandemic, it has been cancelled for 2021. Thousands usually line the streets for the event which sees a battalion troop its colour in the Queen’s Birthday Parade. The Royal Family travel to…
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