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How Queen Camilla gave a star role to a modern part of the royal jewellery collection

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22nd June 2025
Royal Ascot has long been known for royal fashion and jewel sightings. And for Ladies’ Day 2025, the Royal Family did not disappoint.Queen Camilla chose a light grey day dress and white hat for Royal Ascot on Ladies Day. It provided the perfect base for one of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite pieces of jewellery. Queen Camilla wore the Jardine Star Brooch, a…
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The King who clung on to make a queen

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22nd June 2025
King William IV, known as the Sailor King, inherited the throne when his elder brother, George IV, died in 1830 with no surviving heirs. Although William had no legitimate children of his own, he still did everything he could to help the young woman he wanted to take the…
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The myrtle of Sofiero: a royal wedding tradition for queens and princesses

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19th June 2025
The royal family of Sweden do like a royal wedding in June. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia married in the month as did all three of their children while three of the king’s four sisters were June brides, too. And all of them had something else in common, too. For every Swedish royal bride since 1935 has had a very sentimental and poignant addition to their bouquets. All of them have…
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The Princess of Wales is back - and the summer of 2025 belongs to her

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15th June 2025
For the Princess of Wales, 2024 was a year of uncertainty, absence, and above all else private courage – with the future queen enduring a battle with cancer.Now, more than a year after her treatment for the illness began, we are starting to see the return of the old Princess, with Catherine starting to once again return to the public eye, putting the horrendous health scare behind…
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The Duchess of Edinburgh wears a poignant shade of green: Edinburgh Green

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14th June 2025
While most of the royal women wore shades of cream and green, the Duchess of Edinburgh sported a particularly poignant shade of green at Saturday’s Trooping the Colour: Edinburgh Green.The Duchess of Edinburgh’s particular colour choice has dual meaning because it can be seen as a tribute to the duchy her husband, Prince Edward, was granted on his 59th birthday in 2023; but it’s also…
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