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For Sale And Fit For Royalty: Manors, Estates And Castles With Royal Connections

By Carla Passino, Contributor

The long wait is over: Britain’s future king was born today at 4:24 p.m. And what better way to begin this blog (and celebrate the birth of the Royal Baby) than to pick houses for sale that are fit for a Royal? Not that Baby Cambridge will be short of great places to live, of course. His parents have spent a small fortune to make their 21-room, Kensington palace apartment—once home to the Queen’s sister, the late Princess Margaret—more welcoming for a child. The newborn prince(ss) will also have the run of the place at both the official Royal Palaces, such as forbidding Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, and at his great-grandmother’s private residences, including the magnificent Balmoral, in Royal Deesside, Scotland, as well as the not quite as grand, but still substantial country house of his Middleton grandparents in Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire. However, should the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge want to gift a baby with a place of his own, they could do worse than look at these extraordinary properties, some of which have already played host to kings and princes in the past. New Lodge, Windsor, £15 million …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

British media: Queen Elizabeth to leave hospital

British media say Queen Elizabeth II will leave the hospital Monday afternoon after a one-day stay caused by a stomach ailment.

BBC, Sky News and Britain’s Press Association said Monday that the queen will leave King Edward VII Hospital later in the day. It had been announced earlier that she would stay for two days because of gastroenteritis.

The 86-year-old queen fell ill Friday and was being treated at Windsor Castle until Sunday, when she was moved to a central London hospital as a precaution.

It is the first time she has been hospitalized in a decade. Palace officials say she is otherwise in good health.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News