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The Windsors are well-known for their home-spun, jokey gifts.For her first Christmas at Sandringham in 2011, Kate gave Her Late Majesty a jar of marrow chutney,
What was Queen Victoria's childhood like under the tough rules of the 'Kensington System'? Lucy Worsley explores the monarch’s youth at Kensington Palace
At Christmas 1848, the Illustrated London News featured a sketch of the royal family gathered round the yew tree at Windsor Castle it caused a sensation and started the trend.
Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 16.18 EDT “I’d like to be remembered as the Dreaded Marcel Stellman,” Marcel Stellman once told me. “That’s what Spike Milligan called me. I produced I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas with the Goons in 1956 and I thought it would be a Christmas release. Spike insisted that it came out in the summer. It was a Top 10 hit and we followed it with The Ying Tong Song.” Stellman, who has died aged 96, had a long career in the music industry, both as a record executive and producer with Decca, and as a song lyricist whose hits included Tulips from Amst...
By Alan Stroud St James Square on a summerâs evening in June 1897. The Queen noted in her diary, "After tea, drove to Newport through the beautifully decorated streets. At the Market Place we stopped in front of a platform where they presented me with an WHEN Queen Victoria died at Osborne her death was not totally unexpected — she was 81, overweight, and in general poor health. On New Year’s Day, 1901, she wrote in her diary: “Another year begun and I am feeling so weak and unwell that I enter upon it sadly.” Just t...