ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

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July 2025

PART ONE: The Good Mitford and the Very Bad Mitford, Members of Britain's Most Remarkable Family
"Outrageous," this summer's hit television series about the aristocratic Mitfords, prompted memories of my conversations with the Duchess of Devonshire…
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The Art of the Tour: King Charles's Traveling Painters
What's behind the new Buckingham Palace exhibition of artists who captured scenes from seventy royal tours over forty years
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Princess Diana and Her Mother Confessor
In her mid-eighties, Lady Elsa Bowker bonded with the thirty-two-year-old princess during her turbulent love affair with Oliver Hoare, a magnetic and…
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June 2025

Part Three: An Insider’s View of the Royal Family
With parties at Dudley House, quiet dinners with close friends, and celebrations for her 80th and 90th birthdays, everything was going happily for the…
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Part Two: An Insider's View of the Royal Family
After grieving for Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, the Queen seemed like a new person at age seventy-five and took joy from the union of William…
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A Royals Extra Brief: Leon Krier, RIP
Leon Krier, the New Urbanist architect who helped King Charles III create Poundbury, died this week at age seventy-nine
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An Insider's View of the Royal Family
Part One of a three-part series: The late Lady Elizabeth Anson, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin and confidante, recounted the anguish of Charles and Diana's…
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May 2025

When Princess Catherine Launched Her First Royal Navy Warship, She Followed a Proud Royal Tradition
Queen Elizabeth and her teenage daughter Princess Elizabeth christened ships both before and near the end of World War II
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Charles and Camilla Bring a Message to Canada This Week
Their first visit as reigning King and Queen Consort echoes the twenty-six-day Canadian tour in 1939 by Charles’s grandparents, King George VI and Queen…
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When King Charles III was Lord of the Isles
Long before William and Catherine’s recent visit to Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, Charles lived with crofters and immersed himself in farming and Gaelic…
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Prince George Steps Up to Duty at Age Eleven
His meeting elderly veterans at Buckingham palace recalls the training of his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, during the Second World War
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