Today marks 27 years since Susan Barrantes, the mother of Sarah Ferguson, died. Susan’s sudden passing, aged just 61, shocked the Royal Family coming just a little over a year after the death of Princess Diana. And like the Princess of Wales Susan was involved in a car crash that …
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Joining the Royal Family as an ‘outsider’ himself, Prince Philip could understand the challenges Princess Diana was facing. Diana and Philip – or ‘Pa’ as he was known to his daughter-in-law – exchanged a series of letters in 1992 through which the Duke of Edinburgh attempted to counsel the Princess, signing …
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Following the death of Princess Diana, pressure was mounting on the Royal Family to publicly acknowledge her passing. But behind the scenes Prince Charles was ‘paralysed’ with guilt, and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were trying their hardest to protect their grandsons, according to a royal author. In his 2018 book …
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As King Charles begins his annual summer residency in Balmoral Castle, the Royal Family’s official Instagram account has shared a series of throwback photographs to reminisce on the tradition. The monarch marked the start of his holiday in Scotland with a military ceremony on Monday 18 August, and was officially welcomed …
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Secrets don’t remain secrets long for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it seems. Just three days after a friend had ‘secretly’ placed a personal letter from Prince Harry paying special tribute to his late grandfather, Prince Philip, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, a story about the letter …
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Prince Philip was intensely relieved once Prince Harry and Meghan Marke’s nuptials were over, a royal biographer claims. “Once all the formalities were over, we watched as the happy couple, and then the other members of the Royal Family, filed out of the chapel,” former royal butler Grant Harrold writes an upcoming …
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During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II presided over every State Opening of Parliament, bar three. She faced the tricky task of flawlessly reading the Government’s legislative programme while wearing the Imperial State Crown, which weighs 2.3lb (1kg). The Mail’s Robert Hardman revealed in his book Charles III: New King. …
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Prince Philip did little to hide his ‘disdain’ for Charles who he believed ‘lacked the dedication necessary to make a good king’, a royal insider has claimed. It is no secret that King Charles had a testy relationship with his father. Their clashes during Charles’s childhood were dramatised for the hit …
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Although marrying into the Royal Family means living a life of privilege, there are also plenty of drawbacks to joining the Firm. No modern royal was more aware of theses sacrifices than Prince Philip. After becoming the Duke of Edinburgh, Philip gave up his birth citizenship, his naval career and …
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Smiling gleefully, with a rose between his teeth, Andrew was the royals’ golden prince coming home from Britain’s victory in the Falklands war. Prince Philip was particularly delighted with his son’s achievement. Having fought against Nazi Germany as part of the Royal Navy, he had reason to be pleased with his …
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