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Book News Week 21

*contains affiliate links* Book News week 9 – 20 May – 26 May 2024 House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France  Hardcover – 21 May 2024 (US) The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt  Hardcover – 21 May 2024 (US)
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Diana Princess of Wales

Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara

Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara is “set with brilliant- and rose-cut diamonds, mainly in cut-down silver-backed settings, and 19 pendant baroque pearls.” The design of Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara was based on a tiara that belonged to Queen Mary’s grandmother, Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge. The latter tiara was later left to Mary’s [read more]
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Queen Mary of Denmark

Royal Wedding Recollections – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark & Mary Donaldson

Mary Donaldson met her future husband, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, on 16 September 2000 during the 2000 Summer Olympics. He travelled back and forth between Denmark, and they conducted a long-distance relationship. Mary briefly worked in Paris before making the final move to Denmark. On 24 September 2003, it was announced that Frederik’s mother, [read more]
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Book News Week 20

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 20 – 13 May – 19 May 2024 Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait  Hardcover – 14 May 2024 (US) The Times British Royal Fashion  Hardcover – 14 May 2024 (US) The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors  Paperback – 15 May 2024 (UK) Royal Inbreeding and Other Maladies: A [read more]