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The Royal Family and St. Patrick's Day Shamrocks

Cities across the globe paint the town green and get Guinness out to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on 17 March every year. It is a day and time where people sing, dance, and celebrate all things, Irish. This is no exception for the Royal Family, which has carried out the tradition of attending the 1st Battalion Irish Guards’ St. Patrick’s Day Parade every year. At the event, traditional…
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Earl of Wessex takes Queen's Green Canopy to a place of royal history

While on a visit to Kenya in honour of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, the Earl of Wessex recognised the achievement of the Platinum Jubilee in perhaps one of the most historic places in royal history: Aberdare Open Fields, the treetops where The Queen received the news of her accession. The Earl planted a tree as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy Initiative. In honour of the…
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Milestones of a Monarch: the controversy over Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend

The Queen was incredibly close to her younger sister, Princess Margaret. However, the pair’s relationship suffered in the late 1950s when Margaret had hoped to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.  Townsend had served as an equerry to King George VI, after serving in the RAF in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950 he was made Master of the Household and in 1952 became the Queen Mother’s…
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Prince Charles to represent The Queen at another major Commonwealth event

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will represent The Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, set to take place this summer. Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince and the Duchess will travel to Kigali, Rwanda for the meeting which will take place in the week of June 20th 2022. The summit, usually known as CHOGM, takes places every two years and brings…
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