ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

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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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Royals Extra Update: My pick for the Queen Elizabeth II Memorial in London
The shortlist of five proposals for a memorial to mark her 70-year reign has been unveiled, and one beats the others by a mile
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The King and His Wartime Commander
The 80th anniversary of V-E Day on May 8 prompts memories of the enduring friendship between Dwight D. Eisenhower and George VI
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April 2025

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