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With “The Crown” to conclude after its sixth season (the fifth is slated to debut in November), Netflix is reportedly looking to delve even deeper into the history of Britain’s Royal Family.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorNetflix and “The Crown” producer Left Bank Pictures have been in discussions over a prequel to the British royal drama series, a source confirmed Friday. However, the prequel is not in development nor greenlit.The prequel would start with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and would run up to where “The Crown” began, which was with the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II in 1947.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly planning on moving to Windsor this summer to be closer to the Queen.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are even said to have taken steps to look at schools in the area for their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte. While their youngest son Prince Louis, three, is yet to start school. Kate, 40, and husband William, 39, are said to be looking at schools in Buckinghamshire, Windsor and Surrey – having said to have looked at Lambrook School in Ascot.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to move to Windsor as early as this summer so they can be nearer to the Queen.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are said to be checking out a variety of properties in the area including Prince Andrew's Royal Lodge, but reports indicate he won't budge on the property.Will and Kate, who split their time between their Norfolk and Kensington Palace residencies, are now said to be looking at private homes.The pair have ruled out Fort Belvedere, located on the edge of Windsor Great Park, which was once home to King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.Insiders claim that the royal couple has also eyed up Frogmore House as a potential property as they already take their three children, George, eight, Charlotte, six, and Louis, three, there on weekends.Rumours of the couple taking up residency in Adelaide Cottage in the shadow of Windsor Castle are unlikely as there is already someone living there.Royal sources have also dismissed claims that the couple have apartments in Windsor Castle. The move comes amid fears that Prince Andrew is getting too close to the Queen, The Sun reports.

It’s been 20 years since Her Majesty the Queen lost her mother, and a lot has changed for our Royal Family. When the Queen Mother was alive, the monarchy wouldn’t allow royals to wed divorcees. But the rules have been bent in recent times and Prince Harry was allowed to marry Meghan Markle.

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Prince Philip was reportedly “spitting blood” after finding out Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s plans to leave the royal family, a royal author has claimed.The late Duke of Edinburgh allegedly also further told an aide “we were wrong about her all along” and was said to be furious over the fact the couple made the announcement before informing senior royals first. According to author Christopher Anderson, the late Duke went straight to the Queen to express his “anger”.

Prince Phillip was reportedly "spitting blood" after discovering that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wanted to leave the Royal Family.

Prince Philip was reportedly “spitting blood” after finding out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wanted to leave the Royal Family and told an aide “we were wrong about her all along”, a royal author has claimed. According to Christopher Andersen, author of Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry and Meghan, the late Duke of Edinburgh went straight to the Queen to express his “anger”.

rare coin from the 1930s went on sale – and it's proven popular among collectors. The King Edward VIII penny is worth £200,000 and believed to be the first royal memorabilia to enter into fractional ownership. This scheme allows ordinary members of the public buy shares for just £50.

Prince Charles who was born with the name, Charles Philip Arthur George has the authority to use any of those four names as his first, according to expert Christine Liwag DiwonThe writer and editor of the List said: “While the expectation would be that Charles would become King Charles III, according to tradition, he can actually change his first name once he becomes King.“There's a precedent in history that some Monarchs have chosen a different name once they became King or Queen, such as King Edward VII, whose birth name was Albert."It's vital to remember there's only room for one sovereign at a time, not two. Charles was born as Charles Philip Arthur George, and he can use any of those names when he takes the throne."However, she added that it is likely that Prince Charles will refrain from following this tradition as different names have earlier caused problems in the Royal Family.She said: "While it seems unlikely that Charles would decide to choose a different name, stranger things have happened in the royal world.”For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The Constitution Unit at University College London's School of Public Policy claimed that Prince Charles will not the first one to use a different name if he choose to do so.They said: "He is free to choose his own regnal title.

Prince William and Kate Middleton could take over Windsor Castle when Prince Charles becomes King, according to reports.

The Queen's has now reached a colossal 70 years on the throne.Her Majesty ascended to the Crown upon the death of her father George VI and has since become the country's longest-reigning monarch.Her unusually long reign, the second-longest ever behind French King Louis XIV, who ruled for 72 years, is in part due to her father's poor health.George had a range of ailments and illnesses including lung cancer and had to have a lung removed. He died while Elizabeth was touring Kenya with now late-husband Prince Philip.Becoming the leader of the world's most famous family and monarchy at such a young age was remarkable and slightly unexpected, despite the King's ill health.So how young was the Queen, what happened and how old was she when she took the throne?The Queen came to the throne in 1952 on February 6.We celebrate the jubilee on June 2, however, as this is when the Queen was crowned at Westminster Abbey.The Queen was in Kenya at the time of her father's death and returned to London to be greeted by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill.The Guardian reported: "Prince Philip reacted as if he had been hit by a thunderbolt.

Prince Charles should hand the throne straight to Prince William and according to a poll, the majority of Brits agree. The Prince of Wales has been the heir apparent for 70 years since February 6, 1952 – the date his grandfather King George VI died.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly moving to Berkshire because they believe that "this stage in their life suburbia makes perfect sense".The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge currently split their time between Kensington Palace and their weekend home in Amner Hall in Norfolk with their three children George, eight, Charlotte, six, and three year old Prince Louis. But, it has now been reported that the royal couple are eyeing up a move to Windsor as they see it as "the perfect place" to raise their brood.

king who gave up his throne for love.On December 10, 1936, the monarch, who had reigned for just 11 months, quit the role - and the country - after his plan to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson caused a storm.But how much do you know about him? Here are 15 fascinating facts…Born on June 23, 1894 to the future King George V and Queen Mary, he was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David – but was usually known as “David”.His nanny was fired after it was found she was secretly pinching him. He later went to naval college and served as a midshipman on a battleship before going to Oxford University.

Prince Philip’s last wishes have been stored alongside wills belonging to 32 other late members of the British Royal Family.

the Queen was once spooked by the spectre of Elizabeth I in the library at Windsor Castle.Her father King George VI also claimed to have encountered the ghost of the ‘Virgin Queen’ at the Berkshire pile eight nights in a row in the run up to World War Two.But the Tudor monarch isn’t the only Royal ghoul lurking across the nation as The Star reveals…In 1936 King Edward VIII attempted to have some spruce trees moved at Windsor Castle that had been planted by Queen Victoria and her husband Albert.

Edward VIII which reflects his disenchantment with life as a royal, years before he met Wallis Simpson has sold at auction for £7,117. The four-page letter, written by the then-Prince of Wales in 1919, aged 25, fetched almost 12 times its pre-sale estimate of £400 to £600.

from the gifts bought by Edward VIII for Wallis Simpson - the gem-set cross bracelet Simpson wore on their wedding day, each charm inscribed with a note such as 'God save the King for Wallis' - to the fabled Patiala necklace, made for the Maharaja of Patiala and containing the world's seventh-largest diamond (along with nearly 3,000 others), which was lost in the years following the Second World War.Rourke and I begin by talking about less glamorous, but no less important, figures in the company's history: the workmen and women of the English Art Works workshop.

Edward VIII which reflects his disenchantment with life as a royal, years before he met Wallis Simpson is to be sold at auction. The then-Prince of Wales wrote the four-page letter in 1919, aged 25, while aboard the ship HMS Renown as it took him on a royal tour of Canada.