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The Queen attends 200th anniversary Braemar Gathering days before her own historic milestone

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5th September 2015
Just a few days shy of making history when she becomes the longest reigning British monarch, The Queen attended the Braemar Gathering in Scotland. The Duke of Edinburgh and The Duke of Rothesay, as Charles in styled in Scotland joined Her Majesty. [getty src=”487005644″ width=”594″ height=”396″] The event, just like Her Majesty is celebrating a milestone for the…
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Henry VIII crowned this country’s ‘worst’ monarch

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5th September 2015
The “self-indulgent” King Henry VIII has earned himself the title of the worst monarch in history granted by the Historical Writers Association. Twenty per cent voted the obsessive tyrant the worst monarch citing his “self-indulgent” and “syphilitic” wife-murdering ways. The Spider of Sarajevo, by prize-winning author Robert Wilton, described King Henry as a…
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Kensington Palace marks longest serving monarch with film installation

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4th September 2015
Kensington Palace is to mark the date Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain’s longest-serving monarch with a new film installation celebrating the reigns of The Queen, and her predecessor as longest serving monarch, Queen Victoria. The Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens and has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Kensington Palace Drawing…
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Things are starting to bloom this month as Duchess of Cornwall accepts garden presidency

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1st September 2015
The Duchess of Cornwall has recently agreed to become president of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire. The Duchess of Cornwall is pictured here visiting the Big Lunch Project at the Skainos Centre in East Belfast in May 2015. Founded in 1953 by nurseryman Harold Hillier, it began as the Hillier Arboretum after he acquired Jermyns House and its grounds. The gardens are a charitable trust…
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