In an effort to increase “efficiency” among royal staff, British Monarch King Charles III is planning to cut off 20% of the middle-management staff of the UK Royal family. According to the British news outlet Daily Mail, Charles and Camilla are reportedly “dismayed” over the fact that too many staff …
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Open this photo in gallery: The Bayeux tapestry, which depicts Britain’s conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066, pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, in Bayeux, France.LOIC VENANCE/Getty Images The coronation of King Charles III on Saturday may elicit excitement or indifference, but regardless of one’s opinion of the ceremony there …
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About the event Modern coronations are carefully rehearsed, but not 1838′s. Only Victoria and one Westminster Abbey official came prepared for the five-hour event. Clergymen skipped pages in the complicated program, in one case dismissing Victoria from the abbey too early; an elderly lord tripped on the slippery steps in …
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Eleanor Herman is the author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and Off With Her Head: 3,000 Years of Demonizing Women in Power. On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s former mistress and second wife, was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey. On May 6, 2023, …
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P roduction of the first coins of the King for circulation has started at the Royal Mint, beginning the transition from Queen Elizabeth II to her son’s portrait on the nation’s coinage. The move represents the biggest change to UK coinage since decimalisation, with a memorial 50 pence in honour …
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According to a royal biographer, the UK royal family is “hugely nervous” about Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir. Page Six has reported that Tom Bower, the author of ‘Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors’, has claimed that the planned book by the Duke of Sussex is a “time …
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Prince Charles speaks during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, in Kigali, Rwanda, on June 24.Dan Kitwood/The Associated Press Commonwealth leaders settled in 2018 that Britain’s Prince Charles should succeed his mother Queen Elizabeth as head of the organization, but as they gathered again in Rwanda …
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
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Charles, Prince of Wales, greets people as he visits Canada House in London on May 12. He and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visit Canada from May 17 to May 19.HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Royal visit: Latest updates Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are …
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