British Royals

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: A Life in Decades - 1930s

  While the 1920s would prove to be an eventful decade for Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (and later, The Duchess of York) the 1930s would transform her life in a way that no one would ever have expected. This decade would see Elizabeth crowned Queen and the outbreak of the Second World War – the second major conflict that Elizabeth would witness first-hand. However, the 1930s started off…
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Prince Philip

Prince Philip writes opinion piece for New Scientist

The Duke of Edinburgh has written an opinion piece, supporting engineering, for theNew Scientist magazine. The article, entitled ‘Make Things Better’, is approximately 500 words long and details The Duke’s passion for the engineering industry. The piece comes ahead of the announcement of the winner(s) of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering on the 3 February at the Royal Academy…
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InsightThe Kents

The Duchess of Kent - living life in the shadows

Katharine Kent will be an unfamiliar name to many, but in Royal circles she became well-known, causing controversy with her conversion to Catholicism in 1994. Born Katharine Worsley on February 22nd 1933, her upbringing was that of a ‘commoner’ in the Yorkshire countryside, albeit growing up amidst the surroundings of a stately home, Hovingham Hall. Her parents, Sir William and Lady Joyce sent…
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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen takes new record as world's oldest Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest reigning Monarch in the world yesterday following the death of the 90-year-old King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. Yet the record forms only the latest in a long string of longevity records The Queen – along with the Duke of Edinburgh – have reached over the past few years, as well as a number of significant records which she is still…
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