On Princess Diana’s first ever foreign tour, to Australia and New Zealand, she was just 21 with a ten-month-old Prince William in tow – and faced a barrage of anti-royal sentiment. She and Prince Charles touched down in Australia in March 1983. The Daily Mail reported at the time how Australian prime minister Bob Hawke …
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Trolls have targeted the female New Zealand Navy captain after a $100million ship sank under her command, forcing the country’s Defence Minister to blast the ‘armchair admirals’ and stress her gender was not to blame. HMNZS Manawanui, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, was conducting a reef survey …
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The love child of former King Albert II of Belgium wore a statement outfit earlier this month when she attended celebrations for her country’s National Day. Princess Delphine wore a dazzling pink and red suit emblazoned with the word ‘love’ across the back, three years after she was officially named …
Read More »When Rachel Riley first saw nine-month-old Prince George wearing her Sailboat Smocked Dungarees, she couldn’t have foreseen the fame that would follow. George was accompanying his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2014 when he wore a total of four outfits from …
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Would he or wouldn’t he? It wasn’t just the crowd waiting patiently outside St George’s Chapel this morning who were wondering if the King might exchange a few words with the public for the first time since his cancer diagnosis. Every right-minded royalist will have been having similar thoughts. In …
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With so much attention on the immediate members of the Royal Family and dignitaries from around the world it was easy to miss the discreet figure of Lady Davina Windsor stepping the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. As the eldest daughter of the late Queen’s first cousin, the Duke …
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When Princess Anne married Captain Mark Philips at Westminster Abbey – on colour TV! – they set the template for many royal marriages to come, and the public lapped it up. Anne, then 23, was at the height of her glamour while 25-year-old Mark Phillips, was every inch the dashing …
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New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining Covid restrictions after more than three years of heavy-handed pandemic protocols. Chris Hipkins, the country’s prime minister, said the requirement to wear masks in hospitals and other healthcare facilities would end at midnight, as would a requirement for people who caught …
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Royal superfans have been soaked by torrential downpours today as the heavens opened up over London just a day before King Charles’s historic Coronation. Though the capital was drenched in heavy rain, spirits remained high as fans flock to the Mall to await the magnificent procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey …
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King Charles ‘is planning Royal Family’s biggest ever global tour to kick off his reign’: Monarch ‘will visit Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean in two-year blitz to shore up support for the Crown’ in echo of the Queen’s 1953 Commonwealth tour The King and Queen Consort are planning the …
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