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Charlie Proctor: The Queen will be livid with the government if she is forced to miss Royal Ascot

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12th June 2017
It never ceases to amaze me how things can go from relatively calm to scenes of chaos within a matter of minutes. I should imagine that the same situation unfolded in Buckingham Palace this morning when Her Majesty found out that she might have to miss Royal Ascot due to the government postponing The Queen’s Speech. Theresa May’s government has not yet reached a deal with Northern…
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Andrew Morton reveals Diana secretly recorded her despair

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11th June 2017
Diana, Princess of Wales’s biographer, Andrew Morton, has revealed that the Princess secretly recorded herself describing her emotional distraught over the state of her marriage to Prince Charles. Andrew Morton said that the Princess found a way to contact him via a friend and offered him an interview for his upcoming book on the royal couple. The interviews, conducted in 1991, reveal that…
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Queen Mother's racist comment covered up because ‘It was too awful’, says scholar

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9th June 2017
Roy Strong, the man who has spent years documenting the lives of members of the Royal Family, has alleged that the Queen Mother made a racist comment. Sir Roy Strong has published numerous books about his long relationship with the Royal Family. The second volume was gossip filled and covered royal scandals and upsets between 1988 and 2003. Despite the revealing nature of the books, Strong says he…
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Prince Harry arrives in Australia and pays tribute to Australian victims of London attack

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8th June 2017
During an appearance at Admiralty House in Sydney as part of his whirlwind two-day visit to Australia, Prince Harry spoke about Saturday night’s attack in London. Before beginning his speech to launch the 500-day countdown to Sydney’s hosting of the October 2018 Invictus Games, Prince Harry paid tribute to those who lost their lives in London’s terror attack earlier in the week. “I would…
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