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Poignant portrait re-issued by Buckingham Palace to mark The Queen's Sapphire Jubilee

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6th February 2017
Buckingham Palace have re-issued a poignant portrait of The Queen to mark Her Majesty’s Sapphire Jubilee. The photograph, which was taken by David Bailey in 2014, shows the 90-year-old monarch wearing an array of sapphire jewellery given to her by her father King George VI as a wedding gift in 1947. The Duke of Cambridge can be seen admiring the portrait below. Embed from Getty…
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Prince Charles turns app developer

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4th February 2017
Rural farmers in India can now market and transport their crops at a click of a button, thanks to a new application unveiled by Prince Charles at the annual gala dinner of the British Asian Trust (BAT) in London. The Digital Green App, part of the BAT’s Rural…
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The Prince of Wales wants businesses to re-think recycling

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3rd February 2017
At a meeting of business leaders, material experts and designers this week, Prince Charles urged the assembled guests to adopt the model of ‘re-use, recovery and regeneration’ and to rethink the way products are designed so as to reduce the amount of plastic waste. Charles spoke about the fact that: ‘One critical part, as I see it, of the transition towards a circular economy, particularly…
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The Prince of Wales - a biography of his life

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2nd February 2017
Since the thirteenth century, the title of Prince of Wales has been given to the heir apparent, which in this case is now Prince Charles. A little over ten years after his birth, on 26 July 1958, Her Majesty The Queen’s first-born son Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. Charles is currently the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, a position he has held since…
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The Queen likely to host Donald Trump at Balmoral to avoid large protests

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1st February 2017
Despite a record number of Britons signing a petition to avoid having The Queen meet with Donald Trump while on his State Visit, it seems all is a go. However, the mass amounts of protests to his visit have raised substantial problems and to help minimise those, it is likely that Queen Elizabeth will host the President at her private estate in Scotland. Alex Salmond, the former first minister of…
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