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The Throne Room at Holyroodhouse: Queen Elizabeth II's first stop on her long journey back to London

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12th September 2022
Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was placed in State in the Throne Room at the Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh after being brought to the Scottish capital from Balmoral. The Throne Room is very different from the one at Buckingham Palace, because it looks a lot simpler, and therefore more austere. The walls are covered in dark wood paneling, with a red carpeted floor and white decorated…
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Back to School with The Queen

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30th August 2022
The Queen has broken many records in her lifetime but one less known is that she and her sister, Princess Margaret, were the last to be educated by private tutors from home. Up to the age of seven, Princess Elizabeth was educated by her mother in reading and writing. With herfather becoming King, their governess Marion Crawford (an Edinburgh graduate), who was like a second mother to…
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Another big family gathering closes Platinum Jubilee weekend

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5th June 2022
It was the perfect finale for an intense four-days celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and the Royal Family showed up in full force to support her.  The Platinum Jubilee Pageant was a three-hours long event that saw thousands of people parade down the Mall and in front of Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to everything that the Queen stands for. Buckingham Palace had…
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How one Elizabeth went from Queen to the Monarch's mother

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4th February 2022
Born 4 August 1900, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon would go from a family of British nobility to becoming Queen consort. And then, eventually, she became the mother of Britain’s longest-reigning Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V, initially proposed to Elizabeth in 1921. At first, she turned him down being afraid she would…
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