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Richard Palmer
@RoyalReporter
Royal Correspondent with 20 years’ experience of covering the House of Windsor around the UK and overseas. All views my own.
London
Joined March 2009
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    One of the biggest myths about the UK’s Royal Family is that the Crown Estate pays for the monarchy. It doesn’t. The Crown Estate profits are simply used as a benchmark for taxpayer funding. Here’s the then Chancellor, George Osborne, explaining to Parliament.
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    Prince William told a woman sympathising with him at Sandringham that the procession yesterday had been “very difficult” and had reminded him of walking behind his mother’s coffin. He told another woman: “Don’t cry now, you’ll start me.”
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    The Duchess of Cambridge’s 40th birthday photographs, taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi. The portraits will enter the permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which the Duchess is Patron.
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    The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway for the Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony,
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    Prince George and Princess Charlotte are with their parents at this evening’s carol service at Westminster Abbey. Pictures by @ianvogler
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    Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis have joined their parents on the Big Help Out, volunteering to renovate a scout hut in Slough. The palace says it counts as Louis’ first official royal engagement.
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    The Duchess of Cambridge keeps her promise to five-year-old cancer patient Mila Sneddon, who wanted to meet a princess wearing pink.
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    First duty as a married couple
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    The wider Royal Family, essentially everyone apart from the Sussexes, are at a reception at the Guildhall.
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    Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary faces accusations of using highly misleading images to give the false impression that they were constantly stalked by British press photographers. Not for the first time, the Sussexes have been found to be economical with the truth.
    This photograph used by @netflix and Harry and Meghan to suggest intrusion by the press is a complete travesty. It was taken from a accredited pool at Archbishop Tutu’s residence in Cape Town. Only 3 people were in the accredited position. H & M agreed the position. I was there.
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    The King had made the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge Prince and Princess of Wales.
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    The Princess of Wales is to become Colonel of a regiment for the first time in a shake-up of military patronages by the King. Kate will take over from her husband, Prince William, as Colonel of the Irish Guards, while he becomes Colonel of the Welsh Guards.
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    There’s plenty of coverage, but little of it favourable, of the Sussexes’ Netflix series in the British media today. Harry confirms they offered to give up their titles and The Times urges them to do that and for Harry to ask to be removed from the line of succession.