Historic meeting between the Queen & Pope
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3, 2014 The Queen and the Pope spoke together in private for
17 minutes, and the meeting was just under 30 minutes in total. On
arrival, the monarch apologised for being 20 minutes late due to
being delayed at her luncheon. This…
Princess Eugenie of York, Patron of the
RNOH Charity’s Redevelopment Appeal, visited the hospital on
Wednesday to formally open its new state-of-the-art Children’s High
Dependency Unit. “It’s wonderful to come back and see the new Unit,
and the fantastic work the…
The Duke of York launches iDEA Digital Enterprise Award and says 'failure is good for children’
1st April 2014
The iDEA pilot scheme hopes to support
1,000 budding entrepreneurs by investing £150,000 into their ideas
for business plans. The Digital Enterprise Award will enable young
business men and women to build digital prototypes to test the
viability of their business plan. The…
The Prince of Wales, a long-time devotee
of the Welsh harp tradition, has given a harp to the Wales
International Harp Festival. The international event takes place
next month in Caernarvon. The harp is the national instrument of
Wales. The Telynau Teifi harp made by Llandysul based harp makers
and crafted by chief harp maker Allan Shiers, will be awarded to
the harpist who places first in under…
Alan Jones, chairman of the Village
Bakery, recently recreated a baking scene from the opening of
Erddig Hall, when he recalled the time he burned The Prince of
Wales. The Wrexham mansion was officially opened in
1977, where Prince Charles was a guest of honour, and
this…
It was heralded as “one of the biggest
archaeological finds in history,” according to The Leicester
Mercury. The remains of Richard III that was discovered in a
Greyfriars car park in February 2013 is now in question. Professor
Michael Hicks the head of history at the…
The Queen will host the President of
Ireland, Mr Michael D Higgins and his wife at Windsor castle during
from April 8 to April 11. This will be the first State Visit to the
UK by any President of Ireland and follows The Queen’s historic
State Visit to Ireland in 2011. President Michael D. Higgins to
make first State Visit to England by an Irish Head of State
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Around 400 military personnel and
musicians will perform together in the largest ever Royal Marines
Beating Retreat. The Retreat is a military pageant of music, as
well as a precision drill, and will be held on the 3rd and 4th June
on Horse Guards Parade. Prince Philip…
The first engagement during Easter Court
this year is the unveiling of a Windsor Greys statue in Windsor
during which Prince William and Prince Philip will accompany her.
During her stay this year, The Queen is set to receive the
President of Ireland on a 4-day state visit…
Led by Rosemary Ussher, a group of
Windsor residents raised £200,000 to fund the construction and
installation a statue of a pair of Her Majesty’s Windsor Grey
horses on the roundabout. “The Jubilee fountain in the Goswells
looks fantastic and when the Windsor Greys is complete it will be
wonderful to have two tributes to The Queen both ends of town,” Mrs
Ussher commented to The Royal…
