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Sweet moment girl, 5, charms Queen Camilla with curtsy she’s been ‘practicing for days’ as Queen visits the Royal Lancers – the unit her late father served in – for the first time as Colonel in Chief

Queen Camilla sweetly met young children of soldiers as she visited The Royal Lancers in North Yorkshire for the first time since being appointed as their Colonel-in-Chief. The regiment carries a special personal connection for Camilla, 76, as her late father Major Bruce Shand MC and Bar served with the …

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It was one of the most joyous – and most glamorous – royal visits of all time. So, can YOU tell what’s wrong with this magnificent photograph of the Queen?

It is monumental in sweep, mixing formal dignity with vast scale and, even today, unmatchable glamour. This famous black and white panorama by photographer Bert Hardy captures the young Queen Elizabeth at the Paris opera house, the Palais Garnier, on her first state visit to France in April 1957. It …

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Last time there was a crisis, the Royal Family time-travelled back to the stuffy world of Queen Victoria, says JANE MARGUERITE TIPPET. This time around they MUST modernise – and become a true symbol of our national life…

The Royal Family is no stranger to a crisis. It has been been rocked by scandals, extra-marital affairs and what felt in the mid-1990s like a never-ending stream of divorces that all but shattered the fairy-tale ideal of the modern royal marriage.  Despite these upheavals, however, royal life, as a …

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As Hannah Waddingham follows in the footsteps of Diana and Kate Middleton by becoming godmother to a Princess ship, how her new success has seen her cosy up to the Royal Family

British actress Hannah Waddingham’s career success seems to have no limits at the moment – and she is now even set to become a godmother to a Princess ship.  After hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK last year, 49-year-old Waddingham’s name seems to be everywhere. And she has …

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Is Peter Phillips the most unlucky in love royal? Princess Anne’s son, 46, splits from girlfriend of three years Lindsay Wallace after divorcing Autumn Kelly (and let’s not forget his controversial business ventures)

His grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was happily married to her ‘strength and stay’ Prince Philip for 73 years until his death in 2021 – and his sister Zara Tindall still looks just as loved-up with her husband Mike as the day they were married in 2011. But Peter Phillips certainly …

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