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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    The King visits an "experimental forest" that may prevent wildfires... The King and Queen bid farewell to France with a glass of wine... And then they make the short journey home onboard an aircraft that is part of the British Royal Family fleet...
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    The King, a renowned gardener, visits a flower market in Paris named after his mother... King Charles III and Queen Camilla ride an electric tram in Bordeaux... King of Cool: The Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces dons shades and sips Pimm's onboard Royal Navy frigate HMS...
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    Deep fried Mars bars is a delicacy in Scotland.
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    Queen Camilla is the wife of our Head of State. She's surely the equivalent of a First Lady in a republic. She may be titled "Queen" but she's not a Queen Regnant like Elizabeth II or Victoria.
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    Queen Camilla and her French counterpart First Lady Brigitte Macron strike up a friendship as they meet to launch a literary prize... And the two even play each other at table tennis... In slightly more serious matters, the King pledges to strengthen the relationship between his country...
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    Britain's King Charles III and his French counterpart President Macron yesterday laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as the British national anthem was played The King and Queen yesterday received a warm welcome by President Macron and his wife at...
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    King and Queen arrive in France for State Visit

    The King and Queen arrived in Paris yesterday to start a three-day State Visit. It should have been their first State Visit of the reign, but was cancelled in March due to widespread riots in France, with their first State Visit instead being to Ireland.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    The Rolling Stones - "You Got Me Rocking" (2023) Formed in London in 1962, The Rolling Stones are one of the world's most enduring and successful music artists, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide. Now they are back and stronger than ever with another banging album.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    No, that was probably just the fashion in the 1960s. Different hairstyles and clothing back then. As a child of the colourful 1980s, though, I've often wondered what it must have been like living when everything was black and white. Probably got a bit boring after a while.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Cat Stevens - "Matthew & Son" (1967) 1967. The Summer of Love. The British Invasion. Britain becoming the first English speaking country to win Eurovision. England are football World Champions. Britain becomes the third country after the USSR and USA to launch a satellite. Celtic become the...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    The Kinks - "All Day and All of the Night" (1964) Birmingham rockers Black Sabbath are renowned for inventing heavy metal, but it was London rockers The Kinks who are renowned for inventing punk. This hit reached UK No2 in 1964...
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    King compliments woman's fingernails as he visits Cairngorms village

    King Charles III, resplendent as usual in his kilt of new King Charles III tartan, has visited the Cairngorms National Park. As the Head of State visited Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands (though not the highest village in Scotland), he complimented a woman for her magnificent...
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    Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman

    That's just about the gist of it.
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    England destroy Scotland in 150th anniversary match

    My Scottish grandfather loved drinking Bell's whisky with the Scottish soft drink Irn Bru ("Iron Brew") mixed with it. You can hardly get more Scottish than that. Even though I'm English and my dad is English, my mum is Scottish. Because of that I would be eligible to play for either England or...
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    England destroy Scotland in 150th anniversary match

    England just has a history of being a lot bigger than Scotland. It's similar to USA over Canada. Nowadays, though, the England Vs Scotland skirmishes are just minor affairs on a sporting field due to the two nations now being part of the same country.
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    England destroy Scotland in 150th anniversary match

    Scotland 1-3 England England, ranked 4th in the world, put Scotland to the sword at Hampden Park in Glasgow tonight in a "friendly" match to mark the 150th anniversary of the first match between the two great footballing rivals - the two oldest international football teams in the world. The...
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    The imperial nostalgia of the EU flag-wavers

    The imperial nostalgia of the EU flag-wavers When did Last Night of the Proms become a celebration of fealty to the Brussels bureaucracy? TOM SLATER EDITOR 11th September 2023 Spiked One of the many amusing things about the Remoaners, those well-to-do liberals who have never reconciled...
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    911 revisited

    GB News America: Farage, who knew many victims of 9/11, attacks Biden for skipping ceremony
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    Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman

    Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman BBC News 27th July 2023 The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror By Brodie Owen BBC News 27th July 2023 A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, was...
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    Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm identified

    Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm identified By Tim Stokes BBC News 1st September 2023 The person who is thought to have first raised the alarm about a blaze at a bakery that became the Great Fire of London has been identified. The fire, which began in Thomas Farriner's...