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Why we'd never see the Queen behind bars

The fount of all modern knowledge – Google – is asked hundreds of thousands of questions, on a multitude of topics, from people around the world every single day. It will be of little or no surprise to hear that a lot of these questions concern the British Royal Family. Common themes arise, but one unusual question is asked more often than most – would Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II…
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A tooth and salt among gifts The Queen received for her 90th birthday

One might be mistaken into thinking that gifts to royalty would be some breathtaking pieces of jewellery or stunning pieces of art. However, the official gift list released by the Palace recently instead shows more traditional gifts and some which are more odd, including salt and a tooth. Don’t worry, it isn’t a real tooth. Instead, it is a tooth from a tunnel boring machine called…
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King George III was not "a tyrannical Nincompoop"

The less than flattering assessment given to King George III by many today has recently been shown to be rather inaccurate, pending new insights derived from a number of papers just uncovered that detail George III’s reign and activities during the course of the American War of Independence. King George III is famed mainly for losing the American colonies and then for slipping into an…
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Prince & Princess of Wales

Hackers who tried selling private photos of the Duchess of Cambridge and children have been arrested

Two people have been arrested in relation to hacking into Pippa Middleton’s iCloud account last year. A 36-year-old man and 34-year-old woman from Wellingborough were taken into custody after suspicion of conspiracy of committing fraud and ‘possession of false identity documents with improper intent.’ A local property was also searched. The two allegedly attempted to sell…
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