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King Edward VIII and the coins that never were: As exhibition reveals monarch’s portrait and scrapped coinage, historian IAN LLOYD tells how ‘vain’ monarch fell out with the Royal Mint over his desire to sit looking left

King Edward VIII was famed for his vanity.  As a young man he flouted tradition by wearing the latest fashions, especially flannel trousers with sports coats, ‘turn-ups’ on his trousers and plus-fours for golf.  His distinctive way of fixing his necktie has gone down in the history books as the …

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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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Think you know who inspired Prince WILLIAM’S name? Then you’re probably WRONG says CHRISTOPHER WILSON.  It’s a tribute to a swashbuckling royal cousin – friend, role model and hero to King Charles who was killed in a tragic plane crash in 1972…

When finally he’s crowned King William V, most people assume, the current Prince of Wales will be titled after the four British kings previously bearing that name.  Not so – his choice of name comes from a little-known British prince who died in a plane crash 51 years ago. Prince …

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Meghan isn’t really in my consciousness says Dame Joan Collins but Kate ‘never puts a foot wrong: Dame reveals what she really thinks of the royals as she prepares to play Wallis Simpson in biopic

Meghan isn’t really in my consciousness says Dame Joan Collins but Kate ‘never puts a foot wrong: Dame reveals what she really thinks of the royals as she prepares to play Wallis Simpson in biopic By Jo Macfarlane Published: 11:19 EDT, 16 September 2023 | Updated: 11:26 EDT, 16 September …

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