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... obtaining travel, life, and medical insurance, pensions and mortgages. Any financial help would also help to HAEMOPHILIA: Queen Victoria carried the disease and gave it to at least one recognise the progressive impact of hepatitis C on health. The scheme ...

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... a glass of chamgagne. two of port and one of randy. [ 1857 The first investiture ceremony of Victoria Cross medals ' took place in Hyde Park. Queen Victoria awarded 62 servicemen this highest military honour. ; ...

... bought for Queen Victoria by Prince Albert in 1852. The original was considered too small and a new castle was built close by in 1856. The Duke of Edinburgh has enlarged the flower and vegetable garden and created the water gardens. The Queen founded the ...

... Tea party closes Queen's Jubilee celebrations Queen brought her summer of Golden Jubilee celebrations to a close yesterday with the first-ever garden party at Balmoral, her cherished Highland home. She gave tea to 3,000 of her loyal Scottish subjects ...

... it may have had pagan origins and secondly, we remember that Prince Albert introduced it to England, after he married Queen Victoria, and decorated it so as to provide a spectacle of enjoyment for their children at Christmas. In fact, the Common or Norway ...

... . Baimoral Castle was first bought by Queen Victoria in 1852 for £3lOOO, with help from the Government of the day. The Queen is indeed forgxgpstoownitg‘venthetaxpayers‘moneyhvolved Considering that Queen Victoria came to the Throne owning ...

... phomphers and reporters ran thems ragged trying to keep up. There is no one alive who remembers the last Golden Jubilee for Queen Victoria and it's possible that even babies born today will not see the next one. Certainly when Charles is King hci's unlikely ...

... to have been Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, in 1939. i Beneath the shroud of her royal standard, Princess’s Margaret coffin was last night resting in the Queen’s Chapel at St James's Palace. The tranquil atmosphere of the ...

... their freedom by the Parole Board. BIRTHDAYS [l Prunella Scales, actress, 70 ON THIS DAY SATURDAY, JUNE 22ND %4 1897: Queen Victoria . ‘ celebrated her o ST i ‘:?'g!‘.‘r -~ diamond jubilee N .‘“’v L T 5 . o= P L. b ¢ ) B L - e N e !, N Z‘ -\(‘l h D ...

... 111, longest-lived and longest-reigning King of England, died at Windsor aged 81. B 1856 Queen Victoria instituted Britain’'s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. ON THIS DAY TUESDAY, JANUARY 29TH 1916: British military tanks were tested for ...