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Best royal attractions to visit in the UK to celebrate the King’s Coronation

There’s more to the monarchy than Buckingham Palace; feel like royalty for a day with a trip to one of these regal establishments

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Coronation blunders Charles wants to avoid - red-faced trip, booed King and wife drama

It has been reported that plans for King Charles' Coronation are in chaos after a series of rehearsals have not gone so well - but blunders on Coronation day have happened before in the past, according to a leading royal historian

Daily Mirror

King Charles' key to a successful reign - and the royal relatives he should ignore

As a new monarch, King Charles has countless other sovereigns from history he could learn from to ensure a successful reign - and historian Dr Tracy Borman reveals which kings and queens he should look to as well as which ones he should ignore

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The British kings and queens who supported and profited from slavery

From Elizabeth I to William IV, over a period of 270 years monarchs had links to the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

The royals dropped 'consort' from Queen Camilla's title. What's the big deal?

The invitation to King Charles' May coronation refers to his wife as Queen Camilla, dropping the word 'consort.' Royal experts unpack the significance of the title and the history behind it.

WEKU

Princess Anne's 'simplistic' wedding dress was inspired by one of history's most famous monarchs - and it's not Queen Elizabeth II

The Princess Royal married her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, in 1973

Woman & Home

Cate Blanchett may have missed out on her third Academy Award, but she's still one of the greatest actors of her generation

From ethereal elven queen to abusive orchestra conductor, and everything in between, our Cate has impressed in many, many roles — and she has the Oscar wins to prove it.

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OPINION - These films glorifying female screen stars could not be more demeaning

Dead girls made great films: that’s the line. Blonde, an art (and snuff) movie about Marilyn Monroe, was up for an Academy Award for Best Actress (Ana de Armas) yesterday: fittingly, she lost to Michelle Yeoh. In 2019 Renée Zellweger won an Academy Award for playing Judy Garland in Judy.…

Evening Standard

‘For me, she had the Jewish chops to play Golda’: director of Golda Meir film addresses casting Helen Mirren

Guy Nattiv defends choosing actor to play the former Israeli prime minister in a new biopic, amid debate about 'authentic casting’

The Guardian - UK

Great Scot! French researchers stumble upon Queen Mary's lost letters

An international team of codebreakers say they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. The documents were found mislabelled in the digital archive of the French national library.

Radio France Internationale

3 amateur codebreakers set out to decrypt old letters. They uncovered royal history

Cryptologists found and decoded over 50 long-lost letters that Mary, Queen of Scots wrote during her time in captivity. A historian calls them the most important new findings about her in 100 years.

WEKU

Codebreakers uncover secrets of Mary Queen of Scots lost letters

Experts said the codebreakers' work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

Daily Record

Codebreakers Find, Decipher Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history. The long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Secret messages from Mary Queen of Scots’ prison letters finally decoded

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years

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Mary, Queen of Scots prison letters finally decoded

Experts say codebreakers’ discovery is most significant about royal for more than a century

The Independent UK

Codebreakers crack secrets of Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

The Guardian - UK

Tudor Mystery review – who could have painted such medieval strangeness?

A new exhibition brings together portraits of weird children and nobility by an artist with an eye for human uniqueness. It also reveals their true identity …

The Conversation

Dead billionaires whose foundations are thriving today can thank Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

More than 230 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have promised to give at least half of their fortunes to charity within their lifetimes or in their wills by signing the Giving Pledge. Some of the most affluent, including Jeff Bezos – who…

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Geneva bible dating from 1615 to go under hammer in East Belfast

Other items on sale from the same collection are two paintings by the renowned Victorian artist Thomas Sidney Cooper

The Independent UK

Bible dating from 1615 to go under the hammer in Belfast

The Geneva Bible is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £10,000 at auction next week.

The Guardian - UK

Pepper changed the world – but how many people know that?

Colonialism began with the search for spices. I know because it changed my family’s life, says podcaster Anna Sulan Masing

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Tosca; Gloriana review – made in Britain

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

The Guardian - UK

Gloriana review – superb singing and smart staging illuminate Britten’s coronation opera

English National Opera’s one-off performance of Britten’s uneven opera was very fine in every respect, with Christine Rice an exceptional Elizabeth I

Liverpool Echo

BBC Antiques Roadshow's most valuable items including £1million flower

John Lennon's guitar were among some of the most expensive items on the show

Daily Mirror

Saucy new Netflix show reveals the real-life lust story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Blood, Sex & Royalty delves into the murky depths of the British royals. It is being billed as a modern take on the lives of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn

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