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Prince Edward has admitted Queen Elizabeth's death was "far more emotional" because it came so soon after Prince Philip's passing. The Duke of Edinburgh lost his mother in September 2022, just 17 months after his father had passed away and he admitted going through the monarch's passing was made more difficult because he and his family were still grieving for her husband. Edward made his remarks as he deputised for his brother, King Charles, as Lord High Commissioner at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh on Saturday (18.05.24), where he welcomed Reverend Dr. Shaw James...
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Prince Edward is taking on the "distinct honour" of being Colonel of the Scots Guards. The Duke of Edinburgh is set to take over the role from the 88-year-old Duke of Kent, who is set to retire from the position after 50 years following a final annual remembrance event on Sunday (14.04.24), and admitted he has "a degree of trepidation" about living up the standard set by his late mother's cousin. Edward said in a statement: “The Duke of Kent has been an extraordinary Colonel of the Scots Guards. Quite apart from his depth of knowledge and keen understanding of the Regiment and all those who se...
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Ronnie Wood has earned £500,000 from his art in the last year. The Rolling Stones guitarist, 76, has spent years drawing, painting and sculpting and has won critical acclaim for his exhibitions, and his latest accounts show his passion is earning him bumper profits. Papers lodged with Companies House, obtained by the Sunday Mirror, show he raked in £1,953,778 last year – compared to £1,437,277 in 2022. The amount of cash the guitarist has in the bank has also soared to more than £2.5 million. Before being recruited into the Stones in 1975, after stints in the bands Faces and the Jeff Beck Grou...
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The sale of the late Prince Philip’s custom-made Land Rover helped spark a record-breaking boom in auctions of celebrity motors this year. Millions of pounds have been made so far in 2023 on the back of the sales, which have included hammers going down on cars featured in the ‘The Professionals’ and ‘The Avengers’. Rob Hubbard, managing director of Iconic Auctioneers, said the firm had hoped for “some magic” from its recent series of sales of high-profile vehicles, but said they had been left “deeply” pleased with the resulting profits pulled in at various auctions this year. In February, a La...
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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh’s police escort motorbike has left a woman in her 80s fighting for life in hospital after striking the pensioner. Buckingham Palace has said the 58-year-old royal’s “thoughts and prayers are with the injured lady and her family” after the accident at Earl's Court in west London at around 3.21pm on Wednesday. (10.05.23) A Met Police spokesperson said: “A woman has been injured after being involved in a collision with a police motorcycle in west London. “At approximately 15.21hrs on Wednesday, 10 May a police motorcycle on escort duties was involved in a collision wi...
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The late Queen is said to have orchestrated a “military-style exercise” to stand on Buckingham Palace’s balcony during her Platinum Jubilee despite feeling frail. Her Majesty, who died aged 96 in September in her Balmoral estate, also apparently hid the wheelchair she had been using during last year’s celebrations to mark her record 70 years on the throne to please her fans. New book ‘Our King: Charles III – The Man and the Monarch’ by royal correspondent Robert Jobson made the claims, and it says in an extract run by the Daily Mail about the Queen’s efforts to stand and wave to the waiting cr...
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Sarah Ferguson has paid tribute to Princess Diana as the funniest person she ever met and said she was “too young” to die. The Duchess of York, 63, was close friends with the late royal before she was killed aged 36 in a August 1997 Paris car smash, and told how their bond started when she was 14. Sarah, who divorced 63-year-old Prince Andrew 27 years ago, told Alan Carr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’ podcast: “I miss her humour. She was too young. But also there is no other person that makes me laugh more than her. “She just was so funny. There is nobody else. “And I’ve known her since I was 14. Absolute...
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Prince Edward was "slightly overwhelmed" after being named Duke of Edinburgh. The 59-year-old royal was handed the title - which was previously held by his late father, Prince Philip - by his brother King Charles on his birthday on Friday (10.03.23) and on a visit to the Scottish city later in the day, Edward, who was joined by his wife Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, reflected on the enormity of what had happened. On their visit to Edinburgh, Edward and Sophie met with members of the Ukrainian and Eastern European diaspora at the City Chambers to mark one year since the city's formal response t...
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Queen Elizabeth joked an intruder armed with a crossbow had "put a dampner" on her Christmas celebrations. The late monarch - who died in September aged 96 - was at home in Windsor Castle but didn't have contact with a man was arrested just 500 yards from her private apartments on 25 December last year. However, when she was told about the alarming incident, the quick-witted queen was ready with a joke. Gyles Brandreth revealed in his new book 'Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait': "Throughout her reign, she took the possibility of being in the firing line in her stride. "At Christmas 2021, when t...
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Prince Philip reportedly "considered" suing Netflix over an episode of 'The Crown'. The royal - who was married to the late Queen Elizabeth from 1947 until his death at the age of 99 in 2021 - was reportedly thinking about taking the team behind the biographical series to court when he was left "very upset" and consulted royal law firm Farrer and Co when an episode blamed him for the death of his sister Princess Cecilie. Hugo Vickers, a royal historian, and author, said: “I know Prince Philip consulted his lawyer about it, to ask ‘What can I do about it?’ He was very upset about the way that w...
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