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Royal Wedding Flowers: the Countess of Wessex

When Sophie Rhys Jones married Prince Edward on June 19th 1999 at St. George’s Chapel, she carried a bouquet with more than a hint of the past about it. The couple who starred in the last big Windsor wedding of the 20th century had gone for something of a medieval theme in the look of their big day and the flowers carried by the bride fitted right in. From the pageboys and bridesmaids in…
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The Sussexes

160 royal "stalkers" being tracked leading up to Royal Wedding

Leading up to the wedding of the year, 160 people have been classified as “high risk” due to their unhealthy obsession with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. According to the Mirror, 106 men and 54 women are being tracked leading up to the 19 May wedding, with six people being detained under mental health laws. Since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle confirmed their relationship back in…
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FeaturesHistory

Queen Victoria's Mother - the Duchess of Kent

On 16 March 1861, the Duchess of Kent, born Princess Marie Louise Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and by her first marriage, Princess of Leinigen, died at her residence of Frogmore House, in Windsor Great Park. Though she had been mother to Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Kent had never herself been Princess of Wales, because her second husband, Edward, Duke of Kent had been George III’s fourth…
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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth opens a Bandstand in Alexandra Gardens, Windsor

As the beginning of the celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, the Queen accompanied by Duke of Edinburgh had a couple of engagements in Windsor this morning. After earlier helping to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Postal Service, she came to a very sunny Alexandra Gardens on the banks of the Thames at Windsor. Embed from Getty Images The Royal party walked through the gardens flanked by…
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