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How Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were strong feminists: Royal couple supported female artists including military painter Elizabeth Butler and their daughter’s tutor Susan Durant – as their work goes on display

They were well known for their philanthropy, a fascination with science, architecture and modern technology and patronage of the arts. In the early years of their marriage, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also keen artists, etching their children, pets and literary scenes, at Windsor Castle and Claremont, where they …

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Philip’s battle against his viciously snobby Royal in-laws: They sneered at him for being ‘rough and uneducated’ as well as ‘rather Germanic’, reveals ALEXANDER LARMAN’s new book. But, despite being humiliated in a kilt, his love for Elizabeth won the day

As newlyweds, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had what their courtiers regarded as a thoroughly modern marriage. In July 1949, two years after their wedding, they moved into Clarence House, which had been refurbished with the extravagant gadgetry and luxuries that the Duke of Edinburgh desired. These included everything from …

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RICHARD EDEN: William and Kate quietly boost their charity with a TV bigwig while Harry and Meghan desperately try to establish themselves as a Hollywood ‘power couple’

By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 17:01 EDT, 9 October 2023 | Updated: 02:48 EDT, 10 October 2023 While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle desperately try to establish themselves as a Hollywood ‘power couple’, the Prince and Princess of Wales are quietly boosting their own showbusiness links. I …

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Edward VII had ‘special’ chair made for the Paris brothels. And Victoria pretended to be ‘Madame de la Comtesse de Balmoral’ on her private trips to France. It fooled no one! We look back at the Royal Family’s great cross-Channel love-affair

France might well be our oldest and, over time, our most implacable enemy. But the history of Anglo-French state visits is longer and warmer than might be expected, a warmth I’ve no doubt Charles will feel when he arrives in Paris later this month. For all the recent hostilities over …

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