Richard Palmer
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I’ve always found it fun to engage with readers on Twitter and have learned much from the many royal fans on here. But, with the exception of a few I have known for years, I’ve decided I will only now engage with those who share their real identities. Thanks!
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Prince William told a woman sympathising with him at Sandringham that the procession yesterday had been “very difficult” and had reminded him of walking behind his mother’s coffin. He told another woman: “Don’t cry now, you’ll start me.”
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The Duchess of Cambridge’s 40th birthday photographs, taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi. The portraits will enter the permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which the Duchess is Patron.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway for the Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony,
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte are with their parents at this evening’s carol service at Westminster Abbey. Pictures by
@ianvogler
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Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis have joined their parents on the Big Help Out, volunteering to renovate a scout hut in Slough. The palace says it counts as Louis’ first official royal engagement.
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The Duchess of Cambridge keeps her promise to five-year-old cancer patient Mila Sneddon, who wanted to meet a princess wearing pink.
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The wider Royal Family, essentially everyone apart from the Sussexes, are at a reception at the Guildhall.
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Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary faces accusations of using highly misleading images to give the false impression that they were constantly stalked by British press photographers. Not for the first time, the Sussexes have been found to be economical with the truth.
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The Princess of Wales is to become Colonel of a regiment for the first time in a shake-up of military patronages by the King.
Kate will take over from her husband, Prince William, as Colonel of the Irish Guards, while he becomes Colonel of the Welsh Guards.
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The King had made the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge Prince and Princess of Wales.
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There’s plenty of coverage, but little of it favourable, of the Sussexes’ Netflix series in the British media today. Harry confirms they offered to give up their titles and The Times urges them to do that and for Harry to ask to be removed from the line of succession.
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The Princess of Wales has paid tribute to the late Queen on what would have been her 97th birthday by publishing a photograph she took of her at Balmoral last summer with some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Pic by the Princess of Wales.
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The King and Queen Consort will join the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members of the Royal Family at Together At Christmas, the carol service arranged by Kate at Westminster Abbey on Thursday December 15.
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Prince William is visiting the Together As One charity in Slough this morning. The charity works with young people to create positive social change in the community and teaches people how to resolve conflict.
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William and Kate meet Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, and her family at City Hall. Kate is wearing a Burberry dress, a coat by McQueen, and earrings by the sustainable brand Shyla London.
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Prince William intends to make homelessness a key theme of his work this year. He is visiting youth homelessness charity Depaul UK in London this morning.
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The Princess of Wales is visiting a nursery in Luton this morning as part of her ongoing work to raise national awareness of the first five years in influencing the rest of our lives.
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The Princess of Wales has been at Hampton Court Palace this afternoon for a reception celebrating England’s wheelchair rugby league team becoming world champions.
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The Princess of Wales held an audience with the First Lady of Ukraine at Buckingham Palace this afternoon.
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A beautiful carol service this evening at Westminster Abbey, where the message of love and bringing people together was in sharp contrast to the acrimony that has riven the Royal Family.
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The King has asked for the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative, a Platinum Jubilee project, to be extended until March 2023 to allow tree planting in remembrance of his late mother.
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The Princess of Wales has been learning how to treat battlefield casualties during a training exercise with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards on Salisbury Plain on her first visit to the regiment since becoming Colonel.
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The Cambridges have brought Prince George and Princess Charlotte with them to Cardiff Castle.
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The Princess of Wales and other members of the Royal Family are at
@wabbey
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Prince William has taken part in a dawn service at Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner in London, to mark Anzac Day and honour all Australians and New Zealanders who have died in conflict. Photos by
@ianvogler
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Kate takes the slide rather than the stairs at the Lego Foundation Play Lab.
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The video of Meghan mocking her first meeting with Elizabeth II caused a storm online today but what’s really shocked many close to the Royal Family is the way the Netflix series uses footage of the Queen to undermine the monarchy and the Commonwealth, her greatest legacy.
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Prince Harry’s decision to write a memoir has been a commercial success, provoked controversy around the world, and further alienated him from many Britons. But could it be that the lasting legacy of this project is that it turned him into an international laughing stock?
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A particularly loud rendition of God Save the Queen from the crowd there, I felt, as the nation’s thoughts turn to the health of the 95-year-old monarch.
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Prince Harry and Meghan have allowed critics, especially in the US , to use their interview with Oprah Winfrey to accuse the Royal Family of racism for almost two years. Now he says they don’t believe the family is racist but saw unconscious bias.
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Two brothers, seen together for the first time in more than a year on the saddest of days. Picture by
@ianvogler
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The Princess of Wales is meeting for the first time a new advisory group supporting her work on giving Britain’s children a better start at life. We’re at Windsor Castle.
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The King and the Queen Consort, accompanied by the Prince and the Princess of Wales, are hosting the annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace this evening.
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The Princess of Wales is at The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
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The Princess of Wales is making a previously unannounced visit to the Baby Bank in Windsor. She wanted to show her support for her local group providing essential items such as nappies, beds, and school uniforms to families facing financial hardship.
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The Princess of Wales, accompanied by her husband, has been to an event at
@BAFTA
tonight ahead of the launch of Shaping Us, her new campaign to change the way Britain raises its children.
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Buckingham Palace has given representatives of the national press a rare opportunity to cover Princess Anne at one of her official engagements today. At Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre she read instructions for everyone to eat the cake if she cut it. Who was going to argue with her?
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London’s Air Ambulance Charity raised a record £944,000 from a gala attended by its patron, the Duke of Cambridge, last night.
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Exclusive in tomorrow’s Daily Express: the Commonwealth’s newest member, Gabon, a former French colony, has accused Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series of patronising its citizens. The Sussexes face accusations of denigrating the Queen’s life time’s work.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales will travel to Norfolk today to view flowers for the Queen left by well-wishers at her former home Sandringham’s Norwich Gates.
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I’m afraid Meghan is a fantasist if she believes this would be a daily occurrence in the UK, where the
@IpsoNews
code has strict rules about treatment of children in education.
The lies in this interview are extraordinary.
Meghan claims there would be a royal press pen with 40 photographers each time she took Archie to school.
Rubbish!
William and Kate drop their kids off to school most days sight unseen.
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The King is at a reception for Christian communities in King’s Cross, central London, as controversy rages over Harry and Meghan’s Netflix series today.
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The Princess of Wales is visiting the Ukrainian Community Centre in the town of her birth, Reading, to meet refugees and learn about the support they have been receiving. Kate is working with Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska to provide mental health support to Ukrainians.
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An emotional tribute from Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
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The King and Queen Consort held a reception at Buckingham Palace tonight for Britons of East and South East Asian descent.
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Two lovely pictures of the Duke of Cambridge with his children for tomorrow’s papers to mark his 38th birthday and Fathers Day. They were taken by the Duchess of Cambridge.
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A heartfelt speech from Prince Harry tonight to supporters of Sentebale. He has spoken of his sadness that the half way house they wanted proved not to be possible.
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Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace aren’t responding to Prince Harry’s leaked claims from his memoir that William physically attacked his brother or that it was it was William and Kate’s idea for him to wear a Nazi uniform to an infamous fancy dress party.
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In a fresh sign of Britain returning to normality after Covid-19, Changing of the Guard has begun again today at Buckingham Palace after the longest break since the Second World War.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales meet the stars back stage after tonight’s Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Boston. Pics by
@ianvogler
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The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Royal arrive at the royal colleges for midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists. Kate is wearing an outfit by Self-Portrait.
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I’m all for public and media scrutiny of the Royal Family but the debate on all sides has become so toxic now it’s a disgrace. The reaction from some on Twitter to Queen Camilla going down with Covid should give many people, including her stepson Prince Harry, food for thought.
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The Duke of Cambridge has arrived in Dubai ahead of a one-day programme of engagements tomorrow. He flew in on a commercial airliner.
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The Cambridges, photographed in Jordan earlier this year, on the family’s 2021 Christmas card. Photograph via Kensington Palace.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have formally announced that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will attend Lambrook School in Berkshire from September.
The family will move to Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor estate before the children start school.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales are at Greentown Labs, North America’s largest clean-tech incubator, on the second day of their visit to the Boston area.
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At 93 the Queen is still insistent that she is up to a staple part of the job. Rejecting an offer of help, she says: “No, no, I’m still perfectly capable of planting a tree.”
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Prince William has joined the finalists of his 2022 Earthshot Prize at a retreat in Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, where they have been getting help on scaling up their environmental projects.
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Prince Edward had been made Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday. His wife Sophie becomes Duchess of Edinburgh and his son James the new Earl of Wessex. The DofE title will revert to the Crown after Edward’s death. Lady Louise’s title remains unchanged.
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The King is said to be hurt and saddened by Harry’s attacks on Queen Camilla. Any faint hopes of a private reconciliation have diminished.
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The Princess of Wales beat her husband in a 45-second cycle machine race nicknamed the Tour de Aberavon today.
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The court remains in royal mourning for a further seven days. So, although the rest of the UK returns to normal life, we’re unlikely to see the Royal Family out on official engagements.
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The King and Prince William are speaking to people queuing near Lambeth Bridge to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting Windsor Foodshare, a charity that feeds the hungry. They will be helping volunteers sort food donations and packages for clients to collect later.
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Prince Louis has joined his family at Sandringham parish church on Christmas Day for the first time. Prince Andrew also walked down to church with the royal party.
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So the makers of South Park have lampooned Harry and Meghan mercilessly, much more so than the teaser hinted. A sign the Sussexes have really made it in the US or further evidence of a loss of support?
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Princess Anne will represent the British royal family at King Constantine’s funeral in Greece on Monday. There have been reports in Greece that the Prince and Princess of Wales (and Prince Edward) will be there but my understanding is that’s not the case.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales have brought all three of their children to a Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey.
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The Duke of Edinburgh died peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace says.
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I’m not generally a fan of guilt by association (ie person A follows person B on X or likes their tweets) but it’s embarrassing for Harry and Meghan that an “expert” who appeared in their Netflix documentary series has made unsubstantiated claims about “fake” images of Kate.
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The Princess of Wales is wearing an Elie Saab dress and Philip Treacy hat at this afternoon’s Buckingham Palace garden party
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It’s now confirmed that the Duke of Cambridge will be at Wembley to see England in the Women’s Euro 2022 final against either Germany or France on Sunday. Will he bring anyone else? Not confirmed yet. Many fans would love to see Princess Charlotte there.
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So I’m not quite clear why there has been so much bile directed at William and Kate online. It’s almost as if it’s coordinated by “fans” of the Sussexes or other cyber warrior groups.
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Prince William and US President Joe Biden meet in Boston at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum.
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The Princess of Wales has arrived at Westminster Abbey ahead of her Together at Christmas carol service.
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There will be no place on the palace balcony for Harry, Meghan, and Andrew after Trooping the Colour this year. The Queen has limited the balcony appearance to working royals - along with the Cambridge and Wessex children and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence - the palace says.
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Kate has had a go at pulling two tyres, used by Captain Preet Chandi on her record breaking expedition across Antarctica.
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Has Prince Harry’s book backfired? The British public think better of King Charles, William and Kate but worse of the Sussexes after Spare. Will Harry and Meghan go to the Coronation?
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The Queen, escorted by the Prince of Wales and followed by the Duchess of Cornwall, at the State Opening of Parliament.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive at the UK premiere of Top Gun: Maverick in Leicester Square, London. It’s the 72nd Royal Film Performance. Kate is wearing an outfit by Roland Mouret.
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The King and Queen Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales aren’t watching the series, we’re told, although aides are. For the moment they think there’s nothing so personal and damaging to them that warrants an on-the-record reaction from the royals but that may change.
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Tomorrow’s front page
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Princess Charlotte, photographed for her ninth birthday today by her mother the Princess of Wales in Windsor in the last few days.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived at the
@FoundlingMuseum
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A slow start to sales of Prince Harry’s memoir at some bookstores this morning. At this Waterstones in London there were plenty of photographers but just one woman in the queue. Pics by
@ianvogler
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Prince William takes a phone booking for a table at an Indian restaurant in Birmingham.
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Queen Camilla is visiting The Emmaus Community at Bobby Vincent House in West Norwood, south London. She’s focusing on Emmaus’s work in the UK to develop women-only spaces for people who have experienced homelessness.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge depart the military parade in a Land Rover used by the Queen and Prince Philip 60 years ago.
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The Queen, 95, has turned down an Oldie of the Year Award, saying you are only as old as you feel and she doesn’t believe she fits the criteria.
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An olive branch? The Prince of Wales has invited Harry and Meghan to join him and the Princess of Wales in viewing flowers left by the public at Windsor Castle.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales at today’s Irish Guards St Patrick’s Day Parade in Aldershot.
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Prince William has been visiting the homeless charity The Passage in Victoria, central London, today.
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