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  1. Blackleaf

    Coronation: Visitors can walk on Cosmati Pavement in socks

    Visitors can walk on rare coronation floor in socks By Sean Coughlan, Royal Correspondent 24 March 2023 BBC News The coronation will take place on this 750-year-old decorated floor Historic medieval flooring, at the exact spot where King Charles III will be crowned inside Westminster Abbey...
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    The King is presented with a painting by a Ukrainian teenager

    The King has been presented with a painting done by a Ukrainian teenager as he visited the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to open its new London headquarters. Having been gifted a landscape painted by a 16-year-old girl involved in the bank's Ukraine programme, His Majesty...
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    Harry Kane becomes England's record goalscorer

    Kane becomes England's all-time leading goalscorer with 54 goals as England beat Italy in Italy for the first time since 1961 Euro 2024 qualifiers Italy 1-2 England The Euro 2020 finalists came head to head tonight as the Euro 2024 qualifiers got underway, with England gaining revenge for...
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    The King has handled the attention-seeking Sussexes perfectly

    GB News: Spoiled crybabies Harry and Meghan and their attacks on the monarchy have achieved only one thing - to make the monarchy even stronger. A new poll shows that 55% of the British public think that it's a good thing that Britain is a monarchy, with just 18% believing Britain should be a...
  5. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Ghost ft Joe Elliot of Def Leppard - "Spillways" (2023)
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    Well done, Brits

    Wow. All that English history gone because of a f*ck up. The Punch Bowl Inn in Hurst Green, Lancashire, was built in the 1720s and in 1738 was visited by King George II and by the highwayman Dick Turpin (though I doubt they were there together). Now it's no more. Forever. Well done.
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    Prince of Wales visits British soldiers in Poland

    The Prince of Wales has met with Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak in Rzeszow, near the Ukrainian border, during a visit to the country. The heir to the Throne visited British troops and allied Polish Territorial Defence Forces, which have been heavily involved in providing support to...
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    Wild Isles: Orcas hunting seals and seagulls bullying puffins

    Watching that puffin just over a week ago on TV weave its way through the seagulls to get the fish to the nest I was on my feet yelling "Go on, my son!" the way I do when I see an England player weave his way through the opposition to get the ball to the opposition goal. Exactly the same, only...
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    Wild Isles: Orcas hunting seals and seagulls bullying puffins

    There are many things wrong with the BBC today, but its natural history programmes are not amongst them. The BBC's natural history programmes must be the best in the world, and I often wonder how they film such wildlife events the way they do. Sir David Attenborough may be 96, but the veteran...
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    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen

    That's Bolton Wanderers. They hold the dubious record for the most top flight appearances (which nowadays is the Premier League) of all the teams that have never won it. But they have won the FA Cup four times: in 1923, 1926, 1929 and 1958, with the Final of the latter being against a severely...
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    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen

    Right. Translate what you said in your previous post, speak English and stop trolling. I still wonder why, after nearly 20 years, I'm not a moderator here. I'd soon sort you out. You like winding me up and I've had years of it. I ain't putting up with it anymore.
  12. Blackleaf

    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen

    What? Do you speak English? Do you want me to explain the events more simply for you? If you can't speak English then why comment? And what's the point of me messaging you because you can't understand a word.
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    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen

    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen BBC News Sunday 19th March 2023 The 1949 photograph of the future Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III was posted alongside a message By Maria Zaccaro BBC News King Charles has remembered the late Queen on his first...
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    Princess Charlotte set to inherit her grandmother's tiara

    Princess Charlotte, the third in line to the Throne, is set to inherit the Spencer tiara which was worn by her grandmother Princess Diana and which has been in Princess Diana's family for over a century. Princess Diana wore the tiara when she married the now King Charles III - Princess...
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    The King makes Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday

    Prince Edward thanks people for welcoming him and his wife Sophie to Edinburgh on a day which he describes as “special and slightly overwhelming”. The visit came as his brother the King made him and his wife Sophie the new Prince and Princess of Edinburgh. The previous Prince and Princess of...
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    Princess of Wales gives shamrock sprigs to Irish Guards on St Patrick's Day

    Catherine, the Princess of Wales, today handed out shamrock sprigs to members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards for the first time since the King made the future Queen the regiment's honorary colonel. The ceremony of a member of the Royal Family hanging out shamrock sprigs to the Irish Guards...
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    Britain bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    Good point. Nowadays watching the Parliament Channel and I see the Commons or the Lords all I see is MPs or Lords and Baronesses sat there looking at their phones, and I just think they're just busy posting crap on Facebook or Twitter rather than running the country. The Prime Minister and the...
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    Germany follows Britain by sending illegals to Rwanda

    Germany, the EU's largest and richest member state, has decided to follow the example of non-EU Britain by sending its illegal immigrants to Rwanda against the EU's wishes. So Germany has gone against the EU and has followed Brexit Britain...
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    Britain bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    The use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on phones and other devices issued to UK government ministers and civil servants has been banned. Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden told MPs the app would be banned on security grounds with immediate effect. TikTok has strongly denied...
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    Queen guitarist Brian May receives a knighthood from the King

    As for Queen: What a bunch of legends! Famous for their global megahits of the 1970s and for being the world's most successful band after The Beatles. And you can hardly get a better vocalist than Freddie Mercury. I quite like this song of theirs. Incredibly, the video was filmed when Freddie...