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Four heirs to the British crown at their joint 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle in 1985. The year 1964 is remembered by the English for a royal baby boom, when four royal heirs arrived within the space of a few months. That year the Queen herself was delivered of
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When Napoleon died in 1821, King George IV of England was informed in the words: "Sire, your greatest enemy is dead" The King is reputed to have replied as follows, presumably having his consort in mind: "Good God, is she?"
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The dog in these paintings by the British animal painter Edwin Landseer is Nelson, a Newfoundland belonging to Adolphus and Augusta, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In the first portrait Nelson appears with a biscuit on his nose, alongside Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and
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Princess Alexandra, the Honourable Lady Ogilvy, has at last appeared in public. If, of course, one may call "the public" a paparazzo photographing aristocrats through the windscreen of a black limou
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The English royal family often dresses in ancestral tartans, each with its own history and owner. The Balmoral tartan, for instance, invented by Prince Albert, may apparently be worn by no one but the Queen, members of the royal family and the Queen's personal piper. True, the rule
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Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), and Prince Alfred in Highland dress, with a little dog at their feet and a view of a mountain landscape in the background. The portrait, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, is in the Royal Collection. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
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British model Poppy Delevingne has shared on Instagram a family story, accompanied by a photograph of her grandmother with the seventeen-year-old Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, on holiday in Venice in 1936. According to the family recollection, her grandmother said she understood at once that this young
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After the death of Prince Philip, three members of the royal family have received new titles. The Queen is henceforth Dowager Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has inherited his father's titles and becomes Duke of Edinburgh, and Camilla becomes Duchess of Edinburgh. The Queen, of course, will not
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The woman who gave birth to ten children. Maria Feodorovna, Russian Tsarina, wife of Emperor Paul I. She outlived her husband by 27 years.
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It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
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Princess Alexandra of Kent was the last member of the British royal family at whose birth a special official of the royal administration was present, to certify the fact of the birth of an infant of royal blood and to confirm the legitimacy of the descent of a person in