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Japan
- Japan Times: Japanese Princess Kako turns 30
- The Mainichi: Japan’s emperor eyeing visits to domestic war-related sites in 2025
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Norway
United Kingdom
- CNN: After a punishing year for Britain’s royals, the Windsors hope for a brighter 2025
- Daily Mail: Queen Victoria was furious with Prime Minister for failing to catch Jack the Ripper, says TV historian Lucy Worsley after finding bombshell telegram
- Daily Mail: Duchess of Edinburgh matches Princess Anne for completing highest number of overseas trips this year as pair fill void left by King Charles and Kate Middleton
- Daily Mail: Meet the man who rescued King Charles and Queen Camilla’s reputation following Princess Diana’s death – and the controversial reason he was known as ‘Blackadder’ by William and Harry
- Daily Mail: How doting Savannah Phillips kept her cousins in line! Queen Elizabeth’s eldest great-grandchild, 14, was never far from her younger relatives at Sandringham
- Daily Mail: King Charles joins Princess Anne for Sunday church service in Sandringham after hosting his ‘biggest ever’ family Christmas
- Daily Mail: King Charles and Queen Camilla ‘profoundly saddened’ by South Korea plane crash as they say will mourn the 179 victims in ‘in our prayers’
- Daily Mail: The year that changed the Waleses: How royal fans have seen Kate and William like never before following the Princess’s cancer battle as they reveal intimate glimpses into family life and show their softer sides in public
- Daily Mail: Are Prince William and Kate Middleton’s children George, Charlotte and Louis allowed to keep gifts handed to them by well-wishers on Christmas Day?
- Daily Mail: Meghan’s mega wardrobe! Duchess of Sussex wore over £100k worth of new clothes and jewellery in 2024 – with sightings at movie premieres and polo matches
- Daily Mail: Kate’s brother James Middleton gives sweet insight into childhood holidays with his siblings – and reveals what he and his sisters listened to on car journeys
- Daily Mail: The Queen’s eldest great-grandchild Savannah Phillips turns 14 today and is nearly as tall as her aunt Zara Tindall
- Guardian: ‘Dubious’ use of the Freedom of Information Act stopping access to files on Prince Andrew, researchers say
- Hello: King Charles makes rare joint outing with Princess Anne as ‘incredibly close’ pair attend church in Sandringham
- Peerage News: Samuel Chatto to wed Eleanor Ekserdjian?
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