Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor, has been an enigma to many for decade. But who is the real Wallis Simpson: the bad influence on the future King Edward VIII,…
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Colourful characters: who was Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor?
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El Palacio Real de Madrid: the most beautiful palace in Europe?
by Olivia Moranby Olivia MoranThere are some who say that Madrid’s royal palace (or Palacio Real) is the most beautiful royal palace in Europe. Having not visited all of them, it would be difficult…
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Queen sends Nicholas II’s chain from Edward VII to Moscow
The Queen has allowed a Royal Victorian Chain, which once belonged to Tsar Nicholas II, to be kept in Russia and be displayed in Moscow’s Kremlin Museums. The chain was given to Nicholas over a…
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Remembering Marie Antoinette: the martyred Queen of the French Revolution
by Ryan Hunterby Ryan HunterMarie Antoinette of France and Navarre was guillotined by the radical French Republic on 16th October 1793. But she was wrongly maligned, as a committed mother, friend, child of God…
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DNA testing in Russia has proved that bones found in mineshafts in 1976 are in fact the bodies of the murdered Emperor Nicholas II and his Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. Last month,…