6 h. ago Elizabeth II’s childhood dress to go on show in Kensington Palace exhibition

Dress Codes brings together pieces from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection from 1870 to the present.

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8 h. ago Prince William branded ‘ludicrous’ for lacking one skill – and he’s ‘not even learning’

Prince William has been criticised for not knowing Welsh, despite having years to prepare for a role he was always going to inherit following the death of Queen Elizabeth II

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56 h. ago Body found in Thames in search for Valentine’s Day shooting suspect

Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was shot dead in Knockholt near The Three Horseshoes pub just after 7pm on Valentine’s Day, Kent Police said.

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61 h. ago Rediscovered footage suggests Meghan Markle may have broken the biggest rule of royal protocol

Out of all the long list of royal protocols - and there are a lot of them - one of the most noticeable is how everyone in the family walks behind the monarch.

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8 d. ago Revealed: All the royals and socialites who have been caught secretly smoking cigarettes

The late Queen Elizabeth II was fiercely anti-smoking - and she had good reason to be. Smoking played a large part in the death of her beloved father King George VI who died of lung cancer in 1952.

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1 week ago London’s Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Just Got a Step Closer To Being Built

London’s Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Just Got a Step Closer To Being Built  Time Out London

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1 week ago Second Trump state visit invite unprecedented for an American leader

Donald Trump, who was feted with a grand state visit in 2019, is known for his love of the British monarchy.

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1 week ago Andy Warhol screenprint of Queen Elizabeth II among works on show at exhibition

Royal Portraits: A Century Of Photography is taking place at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

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1 week ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's former aide in 'clear dig' at Sussexes

An interview by Jason Knauf, who worked at Kensington Palace, for both the Prince and Princess of Wales as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been condemned

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1 week ago Thomas Tuchel shares England plans with Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle

William succeeded Queen Elizabeth II as patron of the Football Association last summer following his time as FA president.

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1 week ago Queen’s memorial design shortlist includes Lord Foster, who once criticised King

The five finalists will be asked to submit their plans for honouring Elizabeth II in the next few months, with the winner announced in the summer.

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2 w. ago Royal aide at centre of Meghan Markle 'bullying' row's three

Jason Knauf, who worked at Kensington Palace, for both the Prince and Princess of Wales as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has spoken out publicly in an extraordinary TV interview

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2 w. ago Meghan Markle's former aide breaks silence on bullying claims in Australian TV interview

Jason Knauf previously worked at Kensington Palace for both Prince Harry and Meghan as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales as their communications secretary.

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2 w. ago Russell Watson looks back: ‘My success felt like a wave that kept rolling. Until it didn’t’

The classical singer on scrimping and saving for his first guitar, being diagnosed with two brain tumours and getting back to musicBorn in Salford in 1966, Russell Watson is the UK’s bestselling classical crossover artist. The tenor started on the north-west’s working men’s club circuit, before getting a record deal and releasing The Voice, an album that held the No 1 spot for 52 weeks. He has had seven Top 10 albums, more than 7m album sales, and has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles and the late Pope John Paul II. He is celebrating 25 years of The Voice with a UK tour.I was 15 when this photo was taken. My childhood bedroom was the size of a postage stamp, but I still filled it with posters – Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and Paul Weller. I was obsessed with music, but even more with football. I wasn’t particularly interested in girls; my life revolved around hanging out with my pals. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown audiobook review – juicy insights

A wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of Queen Elizabeth II but of the psyche of her subjectsThe funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 was watched by around 28 million people in the UK alone. In her lifetime, she was one of the most photographed and scrutinised figures in the world. Yet few could say they knew the late monarch since, says biographer Craig Brown, she kept “her interior world screened from public view” and was “a human looking-glass: the light cast by fame bounced off her, and back on to those she faced”.Little wonder, then, that A Voyage Around the Queen does not follow the usual conventions of a biography. Instead of a chronological account of its subject, it is a patchwork of news reports, letters, diary entries, secondhand anecdotes, tweets and even dreams. The result is a wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of the woman but the psyche of her subjects. You don’t have to be a royalist to enjoy such titbits as Kingsley A...

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2 w. ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Edward finally overcome the ridicule of It's a Royal Knockout?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: As organiser of the TV show It's a Royal Knockout, the late Queen Elizabeth II's biographer Ben Pimlott mocked Prince Edward for his 'excruciating mistake'.

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2 w. ago Valentine’s pub shooting suspect ‘dead after falling into River Thames’

Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was killed in Knockholt near The Three Horseshoes pub

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2 w. ago 'Gunman' suspected of shooting dead partner outside pub on Valentine's Day has died after falling into the Thames, say police

Police have said the main suspect in the killing of Lisa Smith, 43, in Kent, fell from the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in Dartford shortly after the shooting.

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2 w. ago Valentine’s Day pub shooting suspect ‘dead after falling into river Thames’

Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was killed in Knockholt near The Three Horseshoes pub.

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2 w. ago Logo of Meghan Markle's new brand As Ever may be a subtle nod to Prince Harry... and Queen Elizabeth II

Meghan, 43, announced on Tuesday that she had rebranded her lifestyle company American Riviera Orchard to As Ever. And it turns out, the logo may have a very special hidden meaning.

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