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The Queen’s state funeral included a number of emotional touches, and one of the hymns that was sung had a huge personal significance for the late monarch. The funeral was preceded by a procession which saw King Charles lead his family behind his mother's coffin to Westminster Abbey, where mourners including President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Liz Truss were gathered. The Queen's coffin is now being taken to Windsor's St.

READ MORE: Prince Harry to be 'allowed to wear military uniform' after royal fans raged at outfitWhether it be a beautiful flower crown or a jewelled tiara, the hair accessory is the final touch tying all the bridal elements together and it needs to be pristine.So you can imagine how Princess Elizabeth – as she was known back in 1947 – must have felt when her diamond tiara snapped in two just hours before she was due to walk down the aisle.As Her Royal Highness was putting the final touches on her stunning ensemble, the diamond tiara she had planned to wear snapped into pieces as the hairdresser was securing it to her veil.It’s fair to say the horrific accident would be enough to make any bride scream, especially with more than 200 million eyes and ears on the future Queen of England’s big day.You can leave your tributes to Queen Elizabeth II here.The Fringe Tiara was intended to be Elizabeth’s ‘something borrowed’ from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother but the royal artefact originally belonged to Queen Mary (Queen Elizabeth’s grandmother) who had commissioned it from the royal jeweller, Garrard in 1919.The beautiful headpiece featured rows of diamond spikes placed in a fringe pattern which also meant the stunning piece could also be worn as a necklace.A spokesperson at Diamondsbyme added: “It features 47 bars of graduated brilliant diamonds and rose-cut diamond tapering bars which are separated by 46 narrow spikes. They added: “The tiara’s diamond bars give a modern, elegant and timeless style to whoever wears it.

Lilibet’s early childhood was not just carefree and secure, but surprisingly warm and loving, too.This was thanks to the efforts of her father, Bertie, who having endured a strict upbringing, battling a severe stammer throughout his life, encouraged demonstrations of affection in the family. As a baby, her days were mostly spent at 145 Piccadilly, overlooking Green Park.

Kate Middleton's brother James has decided against celebrating his first wedding anniversary to Alizée Thevenet as a mark of respect to the late Queen, who died aged 96 on Thursday, 8 September. James, 35, instead posted a sweet photograph of the then Princess Elizabeth on her wedding day to Prince Phillip, when she was just 21 and he was 26.

As King Charles III steps into his new role over the coming days, he will be thinking daily of his mother and the astonishing way she fulfilled her duty over many decades. But his circumstances could not be more different to hers, with the Queen just 25 years old when her beloved father, King George VI, died after a battle with lung cancer. At the time, the Queen was in Kenya on a Commonwealth tour, but her exact reaction upon hearing of her father's death has since been revealed by Prince Philip's cousin Lady Pamela Hicks, who witnessed it.

, has been living in the public eye since birth, even though her family could never imagine they would become the faces of the United Kingdom. When her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated the throne in 1936, her father, King George VI, took on the responsibilities of the kingdom and put Lizzie in line for the throne. When George passed away on February 6, 1952, at age 56, she officially became II.

Camilla married Prince Charles in 2005 and since they exchanged vows the pair have called Clarance House in London their home. Before that it was home to the Queen Mother who lived there for 50 years. And before The Queen Mother, The Queen, when she was Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, called it home between 1949 and 1952.

As one of the most famous families on the planet, the royal family ’s day-to-day life is full of unique traditions. From instructions surrounding when and when not to wear a tiara to how and how not to drink tea, being royal comes with its own quirks. And one notable tradition regards the names of members of The Firm, with many royals holding different titles that are often influenced by their ancestors.

cancel culture in a new interview. However, the former This Morning star admitted that someone like Vladimir Putin “does need to be cancelled, and quickly".Fern opened up about her thoughts on cancel culture whilst speaking on the podcast Walking The Dog with Emily Dean.The presenter went for a walk with the podcast host as they chatted whilst out walking their dogs. Fern, who is promoting her new book The Good Servant, discussed the story of Marion Crawford.Marion, whom the book centres around, was the governess to a young Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, who was later shunned by the Royal Family after releasing a book about her time with them. Emily suggested to Fern that what happened to Marion was one of the earliest examples of cancel culture. “She was cancelled, essentially,” Emily remarked, to which Fern replied: “She was.”“She was one of the first big high profile cancellations, really,” Emily continued. “She lost everything,” Fern reflected.

Queen once caught a footman in the middle of an eyebrow-raising practical joke on royal grounds — but she managed to see the funny side. John Gibson, who was the Queen and Prince Philip's second footman for six years, was completely unaware the monarch was nearby when he 'flashed' a camera as part of a gag with a group of Scottish soldiers.But he was left red-faced when he suddenly heard then-Princess Elizabeth, aged 23, "roaring with laughter" upon witnessing the embarrassing pose.The amusing incident took place while he was working for the royal couple on their holiday at the Balmoral estate in Scotland back in 1949.Mr Gibson had been talking to one the guards patrolling the grounds of the estate when they suggested they swapped uniforms so they could see how John’s footman’s outfit felt.Obliging, he decided to put on some of their army gear, which included a kilt that had to be worn without underwear, before getting them to take a snap with his own camera to prove he had done it correctly.Recalling the incident in his out-of-print memoir From Belfast’s Sandy Row to Buckingham Palace, Gibson said: “Standing in front of a hedge, I posed in the kilt while he stood in the middle of the road taking photographs with my camera.

Queen has reportedly finally met her great-granddaughter Lilibet — the child named in tribute to the monarch's own nickname.It is believed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took their children, including Archie, aged three, to Windsor Castle to see their great-grandmother soon after they arrived in the UK for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, due to the Queen’s current mobility problem.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's second child, born on June 4, 2021, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California, was named in honour of the Queen. Lilibet is celebrating her first birthday in the UK and it was anticipated that, given that the Queen had cancelled her trip to the Epsom Derby and would not be attending the Party at the Palace, she would make time to see her grandson and his children.The Queen's childhood nickname was coined when the then Princess Elizabeth was a toddler in the 1920s and struggled to pronounce her own name properly.The Queen’s father George VI was quoted as saying of his daughters: "Lilibet is my pride.

Over the year,s Her Majesty the Queen has made a number of royal visits to Lanarkshire.

A royal-obsessed superfan who celebrated the Queen's coronation when she was only a teen will now mark the Platinum Jubilee with a flashy patriotic outfit.

The Queen and members of the Royal Family reveals “the fun behind the formality”.The Queen has opened her own home video archive to the nation as she hopes the next generation will find it interesting and remember that she too was “young once”.The BBC documentary Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen airs on Sunday (May 29) and uses never-before-seen material from 400 reels of film footage.Speaking from Windsor a fortnight ahead of her Platinum Jubilee weekend, Her Majesty says: “Cameras have always been a part of our lives. I think there’s a difference to watching a home movie when you know who it is on the other side of the lens, holding the camera.

Queen to her parents when she was just 11 has been made public for the first time ever by The Royal Collection Trust. The letter from 1937 has given royal fans a glimpse into the sweet thoughtfulness of our monarch's childhood.It was sweetly addressed to "mamma and papa" and signed from "Lilibet by herself", the loving nickname she was handed by her family when she was a toddler, Mirror reports.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are destined to "slowly recede from top billing on the news agenda", a royal author has claimed.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's brand depends on their royal connections, commentator and author Robert Hardman has claimed.And, as the time goes by following their split from the Firm, they are destined to no longer be at the forefront of the news agenda, the royal expert added.In an interview with website Write Royalty, Mr Hardman said: "I think their brand depends entirely on their royal status and their royal connections, and therefore that’s what they are going to have to trade on, however much they say otherwise."It will be the royal stuff in Harry’s book, when it comes out, that people want to know about, not the worthy charitable activity."And I think as time goes on, like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, they will inevitably slowly recede from top billing on the news agenda."But I think it will be a slow process." To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.The Duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIII, was the Queen's uncle who abdicated in 1936 to marry the woman he loved, American socialite Wallis Simpson.After he abruptly positioned then Princess Elizabeth in the direct line of succession to the throne, he moved to France where he married Mrs Simpson and only returned a handful of times to Britain during his lifetime.Mr Hardman added the Duke of Sussex was incredibly popular among Britons before stepping down as a senior member of the Firm, also due to the great work he was doing with veterans, the Invictus Games and with the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.Prince Harry and Meghan officially bowed out of the Firm as its senior members

The BBC has today unveiled a brand new documentary showcasing several never before seen private moments from the Queen’s life, in honour of her Platinum Jubilee.

If walls could talk, then Adelaide Cottage, rumoured future Windsor home of Kate, Will and their children, could have a tale to tell that is both shocking and heart breaking. As the one time home of handsome pilot Group Captain Peter Townsend, the cosy country retreat close to Windsor Castle is thought to be the place where the former equerry to the Royal family and The Queen’s younger sister, Princess Margaret, first fell in love.Their passionate romance led to one of the biggest scandals of the post-war 20th century, exactly 70 years ago, when the secret of the pair’s long-running affair became public in 1952 and they were refused permission to marry because Townsend was by then a divorced man.

A sweet photo of the Queen as a smiling toddler was released in celebration of her 96th birthday on Thursday.The black-and-white picture was posted on the official Royal Family social media accounts to mark the monarch’s big day as information in the captions were given on how the Queen came to be in her position as the UK’s Head of State. Showcasing the young monarch at two years old wearing a frilly dress whilst sporting curls, the accounts mentioned how she entered her role as Queen aged just 25, after her father King George VI died in 1952.

As a young princess, Her Majesty the Queen wished for a brother to avoid the pressures of the crown. According to Ian Lloyd, author of The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II , prayed hard for her mother to produce a male heir and take the throne instead of her.

royal surname given to two-year-old Archie Harrison by parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle once caused a huge rift between the Queen and Prince Philip.Many of the younger members of the Royal Family today have their parent's titles as their surname with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis using the last name of 'Cambridge'. But instead of being called 'Sussex', Archie and Lilibet Diana instead use the Royal Family's 'official' last name of Mountbatten-Windsor.It's a name which resulted from a huge debate when it was officially introduced decades ago, with discussion on the topic even reaching the Houses of Parliament and proving a point of contention behind Buckingham Palace doors for the Queen and Philip.Before marrying then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947, Philip's official title was Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a name he abandoned in favour of the his grandparent's 'Mountbatten' as he prepared to become Duke of Edinburgh.But many commentators at the time, including Winston Churchill and the Queen's grandmother Queen Mary, stated ahead of the royal nuptials that they wanted Her Majesty to keep the surname 'Windsor' instead of taking her husband's name.In the end she decided to keep the Windsor name intact as per the family's wishes, leaving Philip apparently irritated for several years as their first two children Prince Charles and Princess Anne were born without a trace of of his surname.He reportedly said: "I am nothing but a bloody amoeba.