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12Jul/16

Britain’s May says to negotiate a successful Brexit as PM

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Britain’s next prime minister, Theresa May, calls for the country to unite under her leadership, promising to make a success of negotiating the country’s divorce from the European Union.

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09Apr/16

Churchill’s secretary named as the biological father of the Archbishop of Canterbury

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby discovers his biological father was Sir Anthony Montague Browne, the former private secretary to Britain’s war-time leader Winston Churchill.

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04May/15

New royal baby named as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

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Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have revealed the name of their baby girl as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

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02May/15

British royal couple presents new baby to the world

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(UK POOL / REUTERS) – The UK’s youngest royal comes out to the world…as her parents, Prince William and Kate Middleton, beam with pride.
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14Apr/15

New British royal baby faces tricky life as the “spare”

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What is it like to be the sibling of the heir to the British throne? The British royal family have a tradition of the younger brother or sister of the heir at times courting controversy by seemingly behaving badly. The family will have a new “spare” soon with Prince William’s wife Kate expected to give birth to her second child at the end of this month.

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26Mar/15

Benedict Cumberbatch reads poem at ancestor England’s Richard III’s ceremonial reburial

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Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch, an ancestor of England’s King Richard III, reads a tribute poem at the ceremonial reburial of the “villainous” warrior king whose bones were discovered buried under a car park more than 500 years after he died.

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21Mar/15

England prepares to bury a king, ahead of Richard III royal burial

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After a remarkable archaeological find and a dispute over his final resting place, the English city of Leicester prepares to rebury medieval King Richard III.

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