British Royals

Locked-down and socially distanced - The Royal Family attend a Remembrance Sunday service like no other

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8th November 2020
The Queen and Members of The Royal Family attended a Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph like no other this weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of the ongoing public health emergency, for the first time ever, the Cenotaph was not open for the public to pay their respects. In normal years, tens of thousands of veterans would march past the Cenotaph with thousands more…
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King Charles III

Prince Charles leads the nation in remembrance at an eerily quiet Cenotaph

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8th November 2020
The Prince of Wales led the nation in remembrance on Sunday as the country remembers those who died in war and conflict. Prince Charles placed a wreath at the base of the Cenotaph as his mother, The Queen, watched on from the balcony of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Due to the ongoing public health emergency, commemorations have been heavily scaled back this year with just 26…
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Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen could spend Christmas away from Sandringham for the first time in over 30 years

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7th November 2020
The Queen is facing the prospect of spending the Christmas festivities away from her Sandringham Estate for the first time in over three decades. A Sandringham source told the Daily Mail: “‘We have been told not to expect them back for Christmas.” The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are currently isolating together at Windsor Castle. The 94-year-old and 99-year-old are…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: the duchess who refused to wear white for her wedding

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6th November 2020
It was a low key royal wedding, set against a backdrop of family illness and impending drama. But the marriage of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, on November 6th 1935, began a royal partnership that would become a bedrock for the House of Windsor as it faced some of its most challenging times. Prince Henry, third son of King George V and Queen Mary, had…
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