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Denmark
- Daily Mail: Queen Margrethe of Denmark will officially abdicate next week – but don’t expect a coronation! How the transferrence of power will unfold as the monarch of 52 years hands over the throne to her son
- Daily Mail: Wild claims by Princess Mary’s Sydney friends change everything we thought we knew about her fateful meeting with Prince Frederik in 2000
- Daily Mail: A look at Princess Mary’s most memorable fashion moments – and the beauty and diet secrets that helped transform her into a ‘style icon’
- Guardian: Digested week: Abdication of Denmark’s queen continues to charm and entertain
- Hello: Crown Princess Mary asked about becoming Queen – see her response
- Hello: Why Crown Princess Mary was ‘immediately popular’ when she became a Danish royal
- Hola: CROWN PRINCESS MARY ONCE WANTED TO BE A VETERINARIAN
- People: Crown Princess Mary of Denmark Will Have a Historic Royal First When She Becomes Queen This Month
Norway
- Daily Mail: Princess Martha Louise of Norway’s fiancé Shaman Durek is slammed for saying suicidal people and naughty children are ‘possessed by evil spirits’
Serbia
- Getty Images: Crown Prince Alexander Of Serbia and And Crown Princess Katherine Of Serbia Host Christmas Day For Children At Beli Dvorac
Spain
- Daily Mail: Princess Leonor will take part in military ceremony alongside her parents for the first time this weekend – as Spain’s future queen embraces public duty after turning 18
- Daily Mail: Meet Juan Carlos I – the dashing King who rescued democracy and the Spanish throne but today lives in exile, beset by an ocean of complaints about adultery and financial impropriety
- Hola: PRINCESS LEONOR’S FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF 2024 WILL BE A FIRST FOR THE FUTURE QUEEN
United Kingdom
- BBC: No investigation into Prince Andrew – Met Police
- Daily Mail: Prince Andrew faces MORE allegations in fresh Epstein files: New documents claim Duke ‘knew paedophile financier and Ghislaine Maxwell were sex-trafficking children’ – after royal was reported to police over latest bombshell claims
- Daily Mail: Prince Andrew is reported to police over Epstein files: Calls on both sides of the Atlantic for the Duke of York to face prosecution after unsealed documents make more claims of sexual assault – damaging hope of returning to royal duties
- Daily Mail: Prince Andrew will NEVER return to the royal fold and will be ‘forced out’ of the Royal Lodge after documents relating to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein detailing sexual assault allegations ‘crystallise’ King Charles’s determination to act
- Daily Mail: Scotland Yard will not rule out investigating sexual assault claims against Prince Andrew as new documents bring relationship to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein back into spotlight
- Daily Mail: Met Police says NO investigation into Prince Andrew launched despite tranche of Epstein documents released naming him
- Daily Mail: Keir Starmer puts pressure on Scotland Yard to launch probe into ‘credible allegations’ against Prince Andrew after King’s brother is named in documents about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – as Rishi Sunak refuses to back investigation
- Daily Mail: Prince Andrew had daily massages when he visited paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion and stayed in the ‘blue room’, former housekeeper claims – as Sarah Ferguson is also named in unsealed files
- Daily Mail: Prince Andrew faced receiving a Jeffrey Epstein subpoena at BUCKINGHAM PALACE, bombshell documents reveal: Royal will be evicted from his mansion over latest scandal
- Daily Mail: Disgraced Ghislaine Maxwell unleashes on Virginia Giuffre: Socialite slams ’tissue of lies’ and has ‘no recollection’ of introducing Epstein victim to Prince Andrew or the Duke to disgraced financier… as her testimony is laid bare
- Daily Mail: Princess Beatrice visits Prince Andrew at Royal Lodge hours after files claim he knew Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were trafficking children for sex
- Daily Mail: ‘Why does everybody have their cameras on?’: Prince Andrew’s bizarre exchange with royal fans at Sandringham – before he tells them they ‘ought to stand on this side and see what it’s like’
- Daily Mail: As she turns 42, is the King about to give Kate a promotion? And could William and Kate be handing out their own Royal Warrants to favourites like Lululemon before too long
- Daily Mail: EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How Prince William called Queen Elizabeth to change the guest list for his wedding to Princess Kate in 2011
- Express: Why King Charles can’t remove Prince Andrew’s royal title and place in line of succession
- Hello: Princess Anne becomes first royal to return to duties in 2024
- Newsweek: King Charles ‘Needs to Answer Questions’ Over Andrew’s Epstein Scandal
- People: How Kate Middleton Is Spending Her 42nd Birthday Weekend — Tea Parties, Country Life and Family
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