Her Majesty The Queen’s Christmas Message – 2018
The first televised Christmas broadcast by The Queen was also broadcast live from Sandringham House in Norfolk in 1957.
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Sir Ian McKellen: ‘Buckingham Palace brings out the worst in me’
The stage and screen legend shared with Graham Norton how he made himself at home.
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Nurse Trixie returns to Nonnatus House for this year’s ‘Call the Midwife’ holiday special
Call the Midwife fans will no doubt remember Nurse Trixie’s departure in series 7 after slipping back into her addiction with alcohol.
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Lots of new faces at Nonnatus House as ‘Call the Midwife’ S8 begins filming
Miriam Margolyes will join the cast of Call the Midwife for the forthcoming 2018 Christmas special and episode 1 of series 8 which will, most likely, premiere on BBC1 in January 2019. The Harry Potter star (along with Blackadder, Little Dorrit and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) is set to play Sister Mildred, a “forthright and indefatigable sister from […]
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The Queen channels a little bit of Hyacinth Bucket at annual Palace of Holyroodhouse garden party
Over the course of 5 series, 40+ episodes and even a trip around the dance floor with Onslow on the QE2, Hyacinth Bucket endlessly strived to one day reach the top of the upper classes. Hyacinth lived to impress. She had no patience for people who pretend to be superior because, after all, that made it […]
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R.I.P. Willow – The Queen’s last Royal Corgi passes at 14.
Willow, the last in a long line of royal corgis died earlier this week after a lengthy battle with a cancer-related illness. Willow’s passing signals the end of the monarch’s long-standing tradition and marks the first time Her Majesty has not had a corgi in her household since World War II. At 91, The Queen is […]
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‘The Crown’ S2 gets a new trailer and a December release date
Just as Jenna Coleman’s Queen Victoria begins her struggles with motherhood, monarchy and marriage in the forthcoming series 2 of Victoria, all is not well in the royal household of series 2 of The Crown as Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth is having her own marriage issues. As her empire begins to crumble around her, she must do what is […]
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Old Dog from ‘New Tricks’, Denis Lawson, joins S2 of ‘Victoria’ as Scottish Duke
Denis Lawson, best known the world over for his impressive array of roles, including the iconic X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars franchise, and as the mild-mannered Jarndyce in the BBC’s Charles Dickens adaptation Bleak House, has joined the cast of Victoria for series 2. Looking quite a bit different than his most […]
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‘Victoria’ adds Christmas special for 2017
If one Queen’s Speech of the Day isn’t enough for you next Christmas, you had best stick around as there will be another one Christmas night, courtesy of ITV and Mammoth Screen, producers of Victoria, Poldark, Endeavour, And Then There Were None and Black Work, among others. Following last weeks news that Victoria, the current leader in the […]
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A bit of history behind Her Majesty The Queen’s Christmas message
Following the tradition that was started in 1932 by her father, King George V, Her Majesty The Queen broadcast her inaugural Christmas Message live on the radio from her study at Sandringham, Norfolk in 1952. The Queen began: “Each Christmas, at this time, my beloved father broadcast a message to his people in all parts of the world. Today […]
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