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The invitation to the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla is adorned with a pagan image of the Green Man

At the centre of the invitation sits the head of the Green Man, a widely known motif of medieval architecture, art and folklore. You will surely have seen, in medieval manuscripts or churches, male heads wholly covered in leaves, spewing vines from the mouth or sprouting shoots from every orifice

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Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers

Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers. Queen Mary lived for almost 86 years, King George V for 71

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This wooden sphinx in the British Museum has nothing to do with Egypt

This wooden sphinx in the British Museum has nothing to do with Egypt. The sculpture is the work of a North American artist of the Haida, a small nation living on the islands of British Columbia. The sphinx was found in an abandoned Haida village, buried inside an empty house.

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This is what the line of succession to the English crown looks like now

I have one question about this list: does it really mean that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their children ARCHIE and LILIBET? All this time I had assumed these were diminutives of some Arnold-Joseph and Elizabeth-Maria-Remarque. But Archie and Lilibet, for people who will,

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Prince Charles and Princess Anne through the lens of Antony Armstrong-Jones, their future uncle, the Earl of Snowdon

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Prince Philip's aunt and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's niece, Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965), née Battenberg, often visited London, and once a bus nearly ran her down there

Prince Philip's aunt and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's niece, Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965), née Battenberg, often visited London, and once a bus nearly ran her down there. After this unpleasantness Queen Louise, when walking the streets of London, always carried a small card printed with

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I adore reconstructions like this!

I adore reconstructions like this! The artist Bob Marshall, drawing on sketches, plans, archaeological evidence and the findings of GPS surveys, has recreated the story of how Windsor Castle grew from a wooden fortress built by William the Conqueror in the eleventh century into the palace that serves today as

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Camilla Parker Bowles's Favourite Biscuit

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The Crowns of Queens Consort Worn at the Coronations of Their Husbands

The crowns of queens consort worn at the coronations of their husbands. Left: the crown of Alexandra of Denmark at the coronation of Edward VII in 1902. Right: the crown of Mary of Teck at the coronation of George V in 1911. Centre: the crown of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at

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On 15 February 2002, fifty years after the funeral of King George VI, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, made her last public appearance

On 15 February 2002, fifty years after the funeral of King George VI, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, made her last public appearance. It was the day of the funeral of her younger daughter, Princess Margaret, who had died of a stroke at the age of 71. The Queen