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A Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, and welcome to Pallace Intrigue Game,
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your host Mark Francis. Princess Catherine has no problem having
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a gentle laugh at her husband's expense, especially when it
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comes to Prince William's hair, or rather the lack thereof
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Former Royal butler Grant Harold recounts the moment in his
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upcoming memoir The Royal Butler, My Remarkable Life of Royal Service.
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Harold was chatting with the royal couple about aging when
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he quipped, surely the worst thing about aging was losing
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your hair and going bold. At that, he says, Kate
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started sniggering, and William gave me a look and said
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thanks for that. Harold added that it hadn't dawned on
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him at the time that the Prince was already beginning
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to lose his hair. Apparently, jokes about William's bold patch
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with something of an inside gag, But the Prince of
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Wales was always a good sport about it. Harold noted
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he always took any comments intended or otherwise in good humor.
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A short time later, William got his own back when
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Harold turned up with an unfortunate fake tan William said,
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what have you done? Is it gone everywhere? I said
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it was everywhere. He said, can I see it? I
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had to take my shoes and socks off to show
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him my toes, which were orange. The Royal Butler My
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Remarkable Life of Royal Services out on September twenty third,
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The couple finally got some work in after seven weeks
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of vacations, with Kate's lighter, sun kissed locks brightening the morning,
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despite the sudden downpour that forced the Prince and Princess
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of Wales to cut short outdoor activities with school children
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at the Natural History Museum. The couple had arrived in
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South Kensington to bright sunshine, only for the weather to
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turn within minutes, sending everyone scrambling for cover. One imagines
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they were heartbroken about being forced to work less hard.
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The pair had just joined the youngsters from Kender Primary
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Scoo for some pond dipping when the rain began. Kate,
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who has been patron of the museum since twenty thirteen,
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told Dr Sandy Nap, a plant taxonomist, sorry, it's been
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such a long time for me to come back. She
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did not explain why it's been twelve years nor if
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super yachts were involved in the delay. As the rain intensified,
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William and Kate handed out umbrellas and helped usher the
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children indoors. Assistant headteacher Beverly Brown said, we had been
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waiting for the session to start and the children were
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very excited. As we started to move, it started to
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pour and we didn't know what to do. Prince William
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gallantly held an umbrella over an adult and children. Princess
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Kate was in amongst us and said, let them go
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in and let's take them inside. It's pouring. Inside. The
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royals joined workshops where children worked on identifying animals and
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learning about habitats. With rain spots still visible on her
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green blazer, Kate apologized, saying sorry, we're a bit wet.
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It's nice and try, and then suddenly within seconds it
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was such a lovely day when he mettered with a smile,
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but its nature in amongst King Charles visited a new
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hospital in West Midlands Wednesday and delivered what might be
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the most relatable royal commentary and British history bits don't
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work so well once you get past seventy. The seventy
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six year old monarch was speaking to eighty five year
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old Jacqueline Page, who told him she was wearing out.
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His response was basically the Royal version of tell me
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about it. During his hospital visit, Charles met with cancer
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patients and shared his own experience with the disease. He
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told one patient he was not too bad and that
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half the problem with cancer is detecting it in time.
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The King spoke with Matthew Schinder, who has late stage
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prostate cancer, and told Charles, I could go today, I
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could go tomorrow. Charles responded with genuine empathy, saying doctors
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are getting better and better at dealing with these things,
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but acknowledging there's always hope down the road. Charles also
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reminisced about his helicopter flying days with Missus Page, who
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remembered seeing him in nineteen seventy eight when he opened
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Perry Bar Stadium. She got to shake his head this time,
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and like forty seven years ago when her parents got
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the royal greeting and she was left out. The King
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remembered the wonderful old helicopter he used to fly after
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leaving the Navy in nineteen seventy six. Queen Camilla once
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fought off an attacker with remarkable resolve, using nothing but
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her shoe. The incident took place in the mid nineteen
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sixties when a teenage Camilla was traveling by train to
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London's Paddington station. According to a new book by royal
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author Valentine Lowe, a man seated next to her made
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an indecent approach. Camilla responded swiftly, removing her shoe and
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striking the man in the groin with the heel. Low
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told the BBC that Camilla later explained the episode to
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Boris Johnson during his time as Mirror of London, recounting,
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I did what my mother told me. I took off
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my shoe and I whacked him in the nuts with
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the heel. Upon arriving at Paddington, she immediately reported the
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incident to a man in uniform. Her attacker was subsequently arrested.
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The story is revealed in Power and the Palace, Low's
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forthcoming book on the mon key's relationship with political leadership.
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A former royal correspondent for The Times, Lowe said the
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story was passed along by one of Johnson's aides, who
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believes the experience shaped Camilla's later advocacy for survivors of
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domestic abuse. Lowe said Camilla had never spoken publicly about
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the assault, in part because she did not want to
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cent to her story over those of other victims. She
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didn't want to draw attention to her at the expense
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of their experiences. Palace Entry will be right back by
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The Spectator, Alexander Laman wonders is it possible to learn
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anything new about the royal family? Laman writes another week,
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another round of royal revelations, following swiftly on from the
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publication of Andrew Lowney's best selling denigration of the Duke
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and Duchess of York entitled There is Now Another tell
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all account of the royal family, Valentine Low's power and
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the Palace. It has recently been serialized in The Times,
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appropriately enough, given that Lowe is that newspaper's royal correspondent
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and purports to offer a well sourced and factually accurate
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account of the relationship between politics and the royal family
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over the past few years. Some of the revelations are
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largely lighthearted, such as the Queen's penchant for doing the
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washing up at Balmoral, albeit slightly and effectively a dishwasher
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was pressed into service afterwards, and her sending Barack Obama
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to bed when he was enjoying himself too much at
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a banquet at Buckingham Pallace. Others, such as the story
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that Camilla's personal support for rape crisis centers stems from
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an incident as a teenager when she narrowly avoided serious
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sexual assault on the train and ensure that attacker was arrested,
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which we just mentioned earlier, and more somber in nature,
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and all the more revelatory as a result. Still, for
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all the front page headlines, both the low and Loudy
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books suffer from the same problem. Firstly, although both offer
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detail that few if any readers would have previously been
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aware of. The stories are really just offering well researched
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anecdotes rather than anything genuinely revelatory for the most part,
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and when a truly interesting detail merges, such as the
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Queen's apparent rejection of Brexit, the question immediately is raised
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of where the information came from. Given that the best
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selling nonfiction book of all time in this country, Prince
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Harry's Spare, was chocked full of similarly incredible claims, we
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can expect a steady stream of such volumes for sometimes
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come still. As a great woman once said, recollections may vary,
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and it is important to retain an element of detachment
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while reading some of these stories. Just because you might
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wish to believe something to be true doesn't necessarily mean
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it is after all. Buckingham Palace has announced the death
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of the Duchess of Kent at the age of ninety two.
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The Duchess, wife of the Duke of Kent and cousin
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by marriage to the late Queen Elizabeth, passed away peacefully
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at Kensington Palace, surrounded by her family. In a statement,
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the palace said, it is with deep sorrow that Buckingham
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Palace announces the death of Her Royal Highness, the Duchess
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of Kent. Her Royal Highness passed away peacefully last night
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at Kensington Palace, surrounded by her family. The King and
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Queen and all members of the royal family joined the
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Duke of Kent, his children and grandchildren in mourning their
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loss and remembering fondly the Duchess's lifelong devotion to all
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the organizations with which she was associated, her passion for music,
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and her empathy for young people. Born Katherine Lucy Mary
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Worsley in Yorkshire in nineteen thirty three, she developed a
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love of music early in life, though she was not
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accepted into the Royal Academy of Music. Instead, she worked
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in nurseries before meeting Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, in
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nineteen fifty six. The couple married at york Minster in
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nineteen sixty one, in what was considered the wedding of
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the year. They went on to have three children, George,
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Earl of Saint Andrew's, Lady Helen Taylor, and Lord Nicholas Windsor.
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The Duchess became a familiar face at public events and
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was most closely associated with Bimbledon, where she presented trophies
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for many years. In nineteen ninety three, she memorably comforted
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a distraught Jana Novotna after the women's singles final. Her
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life was also marked by personal tragedy, including the loss
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of two children in the seventies. She later spoke candidly
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about how those experiences shaped her understanding of grief and
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mental health. In nineteen ninety four, she converted to Catholicism
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with the approval of the Late Queen, a decision that
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was significant given historic succession laws. In two thousand and two,
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she stepped back from royal duties, chose to forego her
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HRH style and pursuit a quieter life, teaching music under
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the name missus Kent. In a later interview, she revealed
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her pupils and their parents were unaware of her royal connections.
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Despite her withdrawal from public life, she continued to be
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admired for her warmth and passion for music. She attended
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the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in
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twenty eighteen, but did not appear at the Late Queen's
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funeral or the King's coronation. Her last public appearance was
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in October twenty twenty three alongside her husband at Kensington Palace.
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The Union flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half
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mast in her honor and a formal announcement has been
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posted on the palace railings and they have it to
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