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Want to plan garden parties? The Queen is hiring

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5th June 2019
Fancy getting a front-row seat to some of the most exclusive occasions in the world? If you’ve got event planning experience, the Royal Household might just have the job for you. A vacancy for an events coordinator was posted on their website, and you don’t even need a degree to apply. “It’s knowing the part you’ve played in delivering exceptional events,” the job…
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Prince Charles joins the Queen in an historic photo for D-Day commemorations

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5th June 2019
The Queen and the Prince of Wales have been joined by world leaders for a special photo marking the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Beach landings. The historic image was taken as Elizabeth II and her heir arrived in Southsea, Portsmouth for the UK’s national commemoration for the D-Day anniversary. Leaders representing the Allied Nations that took part in the D-Day landings, which began…
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Trump's gift to The Queen revealed

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5th June 2019
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, as is tradition, presented Her Majesty a gift as part of the state visit that commenced on 3 June. The Trumps gave The Queen a silver and silk poppy brooch from Tiffany & Co. The gift, carefully selected by the First Lady and presented in a custom wooden White House box, symbolises those who died during the First World War. It is also…
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The Queen shows President Trump the Declaration of Independence and other treasures

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4th June 2019
Her Majesty The Queen showed US President Donald Trump one of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence – signed on 4 July 1776 – in which the Thirteen American Colonies announced their independence from the Crown. On the throne at the time was King George III, who was Queen Elizabeth II’s great-great-great-great grandfather.The specific copy shown to the President…
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