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February 19, 2021 at 5:39 pm
On 17 July 1958, Sandra Seagram, the last debutante presented to the royal family at Buckingham Palace, curtseyed to the Queen Mother and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth II was unwell and unable to attend the historic ceremony. Seagram was a 20-year-old Canadian and a great-granddaughter of Joseph Emm Seagram, the founder of the Seagram Whiskey distillery in Waterloo, Ontario, which became the largest owner of alcoholic beverage lines in the world.
The Canadian Press reported that Seagram, whose mother and grandmother had also been presented at court, was one of “forty Canadian debutantes presented along with some 200 other Commonwealth girls”.
The Grimsby man who fought off a shark to save another man s life
Heroic Noel Kinch was awarded a bravery award in the 1930s after jumping into open waters to save another man’s life
06:00, 24 JAN 2021
Heroic Noel Kinch was awarded a bravery award in the 1930s after jumping into open waters to save another man’s life
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27th December 2020
In ordinary times, the past year might well have seen a focus on the Duke of Kent celebrating his 85
th birthday and questions asked about how much longer this devoted cousin of the Queen would continue to serve the Royal Family. Instead, this most extraordinary time has seen the Duke reshape his working pattern around the challenges of the pandemic without a mention of retirement. In fact, the Duke of Kent has remained as integral to royal life as he has ever been throughout the difficult times of 2020.
For a man mid way through his ninth decade, the Duke of Kent packs a formidable royal punch. Not only is the Court Circular still peppered with engagements for the prince, once more he has taken on some of the most important and sensitive duties in the royal diary.
The Most Tragic Deaths In The British Royal Family John Mathew Smith Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, wrote Shakespeare in
Henry IV, Part II, but you don t even have to be wearing the crown to be at risk of losing your head. Just being a little too close to inheriting it can be enough to get you killed prematurely.
Being part of the British royal family isn t all jewels, palaces, and waving from fancy cars, and it won t protect you from a fatal illness or a sharp sword or an arrow in the eye. While some kings have killed their way to the crown, others have paved the way for someone else by dying unexpectedly. Deaths in the British royal family affect the victim s relatives, send a wave of grief and sometimes relief through the nation, and occasionally change the course of history. Featuring betrayals, beheadings, and lots of people with the same names, these are the most tragic deaths in the British royal family.