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How Diana won the hearts of Australians – despite a very dismissive prime minister – on her first royal foreign tour

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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Jilly Cooper’s Rivals TV series takes a leaf out of Princess Diana’s style book, signifying the late royal’s enduring fashion legacy

Since the release of photograph stills from Rivals, fans of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles series have eagerly anticipated the Disney+ adaptation which comes to our screens on Friday 18 October. The cast, starring Emily Atack, Nafessa Williams, Katherine Parkinson and Victoria Smurfit, has undergone a magnificent 80s makeover, which is …

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REVEALED: Sarah Ferguson’s shock omission from a royal wedding – and the 64 other surprise facts as Duchess of York celebrates her 65th birthday

After being diagnosed with cancer twice in 12 months, Sarah Ferguson has experienced a lot in her 65 years.  She recently wrote in The Sun how she had  felt her breast cancer was a ‘death sentence,’ before discovering she also had malignant melanoma.  She said her ‘treatment has been successful’ …

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