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Queen Elizabeth II is NOT the Queen of England - is it so hard to get it right?

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23rd February 2020
I am a bit of a stickler for correct usage of styles and titles. So it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine when these are used improperly. The main one that bugs me is calling Elizabeth II, Queen of England. That bothers me because “Queen of England” is not her correct title! Her correct title, simplified here, is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. England has not…
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Queen Mathilde attends Antwerp Management School event

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22nd February 2020
Belgium’s Queen Mathilde attended the Antwerp Management School event on Thursday that brought business and economic students together from management schools from Flanders where she spoke about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs). The Queen is one of the SDG advocates for the United Nations. Her Majesty spoke to students, teachers and representatives from the…
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Who is King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck?

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21st February 2020
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was born on 21 February 1980 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to King Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his third wife, Queen Ashi Tshering Yangdon (the current Queen Mother). He has one older sister, Princess Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck (b. 1980) and eight younger…
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Narriman, Last Queen of Egypt

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20th February 2020
She was the daughter of a high ranking Egyptian official and the last Queen of Egypt as the second wife of King Farouk. The beauty married the King after he’d divorced his first wife after a failure to produce a male heir. Her Early Life Narriman Sadek was born on 31 October 1933 in Cairo to Hussain Fahmi SadiqBey – the Egyptian Deputy Minister of Transportation &#8211…
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Marie Jose, Last Queen of Italy

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16th February 2020
She was the ‘May Queen’ whose reign lasted little more than a month but left its mark in royal history. Marie-Jose was always a bit of a maverick who had her own views and no fear of sharing them. Those opinions would become a saving grace for the dynasty she…
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Princess Anne’s Style: her best 70s outfits

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14th February 2020
Princess Anne will attend London Fashion Week on 18 February to present Rosh Mahtani with the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design. While The Queen’s daughter may not be the first person that pops into your head, when you think of royal fashion, Anne was reigning queen of style in the 1970s. Here we look back on some of her best outfits from the decade. [getty…
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