British Royals

Prince William hints he's ready to get back into boxing on a visit to Centrepoint

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22nd January 2025
The Prince of Wales showed off his athletic side for a visit to Centrepoint where he pulled on his boxing gloves. Prince William was in Ealing to visit Centrepoint, one of his oldest patronages. Always a good sport, he took part in a boxing class where he shadow-boxed with other class participants. After putting on the black gloves, he shared ‘it might get me back into boxing, you…
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King Charles meets 99 year old veteran as he salutes the Gordon Highlanders

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21st January 2025
King Charles started his week with a special engagement as he met a 99 year old veteran. While visiting The Gordon Highlanders Museum, The King was able to meet Jim Glennie who is a veteran of the Second World War and took part in the D-Day landings. He was captured by Nazi forces and held as a prisoner of war for four months. When the veteran met King Charles, he joked “long time, no…
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The death of a king in a modern era: how George V's passing was announced to the world

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19th January 2025
It was not an auspicious start to the new year of 1936 for King George V.The previous year had seen ‘Grandpa England’, as Queen Elizabeth II once called her grandfather, feted during his Silver Jubilee, but long periods of poor health had plagued the King, and he would not live to see February.By 15 January, he was bedridden with a cold from which he’d never recover. His favourite…
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Royal News

Sophie serves at UK's first social supermarket

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17th January 2025
The Duchess of Edinburgh has been shopping, popping into the United Kingdom’s first social supermarket to learn more about food insecurity and the community initiative to help curb it.At Community Shop’s Lambeth location, Sophie saw firsthand how the social…
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What is The King's Trust?

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16th January 2025
The King’s Trust is only a year away from celebrating a milestone occasion, its fiftieth birthday. What is The King’s Trust and what does it do? In 1976, the then-Prince of Wales founded a new organisation. The United Kingdom was facing high levels of…
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What has King Charles just buried for posterity?

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16th January 2025
King Charles has been focusing on history when he helped begin a time capsule that will be opened in 2125. And there were two special contributions from The King for this important memento.The King was at Dumfries House to mark a special anniversary for The King’s Foundation. The organisation is celebrating a milestone, 35 years, after its founding as the Prince of Wales&#8217…
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