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Famous romantic fiction based on real-life royals

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21st January 2021
Last week, Sarah, Duchess of York announced that she would be co-authoring a Mills and Boon romance novel about her great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott. Royal romances are a popular topic both in books and on the screen.Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in The Young Victoria, VictoriaQueen Victoria and Prince Albert’s relationship is a popular subject for the…
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When Mozart met Marie Antoinette?

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5th July 2020
The ‘meeting’ between Marie Antoinette and the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has a fabled quality, not least because of the oft-repeated folklore that has grown around it. From the point of view of posterity, it is a fascinating moment to contemplate, when two legendary…
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Royal Jewels: Who Was Mrs Greville?

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19th May 2020
Margaret Greville is not a commonly known name. However, her legacy can be seen on several members of the British Royal Family to this day. Many of the tiaras, necklaces, and brooches worn today in the royal family were originally owned by The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville, but how did they end up in the possession of the royals?Born in December 1863, Margaret Helen Anderson was the daughter…
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Royal History Mystery: George III's Secret Marriage?

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30th April 2020
George III is rather well-known as a British monarch – The King who lost America, the father of a very large family, the one who went mad. When people think of him, it either tends to be as the devoted family man he was in his early life or his quiet madness in later life. His marriage to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was an enduring one, lasting 57 years until her death in 1818 and…
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Numbering the Kings and Queens of Britain

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7th March 2020
One aspect of the evolution of monarchy that I find interesting is the development of Ordinal numbers, or regnal numbers, and also called post-nominal numbers used to differentiate between monarchs of the same name within the same territory. In the British system of numbering the monarchs, a king or queen will not get a regnal number unless there is another monarch with the same name. For example…
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