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Duchess of Cornwall reveals how she starts her day with ballet lessons and a 'little bit of pilates'

Camilla, 72, who is in Scotland with Prince Charles, let slip her secret love of ballet in a video call to mark International Dance Day with Darcey Bussell, and Angela Rippon.




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India Hicks shares a glimpse at her son Conrad's 17th birthday - complete with 'corona' cake 

Prince Charles' goddaughter India Hicks has shared a glimpse at her son Conrad's 17th birthday in lockdown at their sprawling family home in the Bahamas.




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Duchess of Cornwall wishes 'that wonderful man' Colonel Tom Moore a 'very happy' 100th birthday

Prince Charles, 71, and Camilla, 72, have wished Captain Tom Moore a 'very happy 100th birthday' on the Clarence House Instagram page.




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India Hicks reveals how Louis Mountbatten felt about giving up his princely German title

The granddaughter of the late Lord Mountbatten has revealed how he gave up his German title of 'Prince Louis of Battenberg' when relations were at their worst with the country, during World War I. 




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Queen and Prince Philip's 1954 signatures are 'the world's rarest autograph' 

The 1954 family card, which features a photo of the young royal couple with Prince Charles, five, and Princess Anne, two, topped a list on the most valuable living signatures in 2020.




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Tony Abbott empties beer bottles into his bins before heading to the bottle shop

Mr Abbott lost to Independent candidate Zali Steggall in the former Liberal stronghold of Warringah in Sydney's northern beaches - a seat he held for 25 years.




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Tony Abbott's former seat sparks tongue-in-cheek calls for wind turbines

The petition on change.org was launched three days ago and pleads with the newly-elected independent Zali Steggall to keep promise for climate change action by putting up wind turbines on Sydney beach.




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Julie Bishop and Tony Abbott are both overlooked as the US ambassador

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is believed to have appointed NSW senator Arthur Sinodinos to the role, and is expected to make the announcement by Sunday afternoon.




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'I don't do diplomacy': Tony Abbott back to manning the fire hoses as he waits for next career move

Tony Abbott is wondering what to do next after losing the parliamentary seat he held for 25 years to a former Olympic skier in last month's election.




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Voter, 62, who stabbed Tony Abbott volunteer with corkscrew is senior partner at KPMG

A man who stabbed a Tony Abbott volunteer with a corkscrew as he was putting up campaign posters in Sydney has been revealed as a senior partner at global tax firm KPMG. 




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Frances Abbott shares rare photo and cryptic post about love

Frances Abbott, the daughter of former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, has shared a rare photo and her thoughts on 'self-love' on Instagram after moving to the United States.




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Accountant, 62, who poked a supporter of Tony Abbott with a corkscrew avoids jail 

A Sydney accountant who used a corkscrew to poke a Tony Abbott supporter has avoided jail time. 




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David Oldfield UNLEASHES on Pauline Hanson in tell-all book revealing how One Nation was founded

One Nation's co-founder unleashed on Pauline Hanson in his new book Before You Judge Me, saying it's hard to find any redeeming features in the firebrand politician.




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Tony Abbott gives rousing Brexit speech in London, saying Britain does not need EU

In a jingoistic rallying cry at centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, Tony Abbott fawned over Britain's historical achievements as he argued the country did not need the EU.




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Barnaby Joyce leads Sydney anti-abortion rally after being slammed for his stance by his daughter

Mr Joyce called abortion 'animalistic' as he joined former prime minister Tony Abbott and a throng of passionate pro-life protesters in Sydney's Hyde Park.




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Malcolm Turnbull not among the 1000 guests invited to tribute dinner for former PM Tony Abbott

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott will enjoy a memorable send-off when a lavish farewell dinner is held in his honour next week.




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Tony Abbott dons a turban in India as he visits the Sikh Golden Temple

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott attended the holiest site in Sikhism, the Golden Temple in Punjab, India, as part of celebrations for the 550th birthday of the religion's founder, Guru Nanak Dev.




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Tony Abbott is blasted for visiting convicted paedophile Cardinal George Pell in jail

Tony Abbott has reportedly visited convicted paedophile George Pell in a Melbourne prison on Monday.




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Former PM Tony Abbott is seen fighting fires in south Sydney while Scott Morrison relaxes in Hawaii

Mr Abbott, who has volunteered with the Rural Fire Service for more than a decade, was pictured at the Bargo BP service station wearing the yellow uniform of his Davidson squadron.




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Tony Abbott praised for battling bushfires again as people call for Scott Morrison to be sacked

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been spotted in his firefighting gear battling blazes south of Sydney for the second time this week, as Scott Morrison faces criticism for his family holiday.




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Tony Abbott 'blew off cabinet meetings to fight fires' and told John Howard he was busy

Tony Abbott joined the NSW Rural Fire Service in 2000 while he was a minister and skipped cabinet meetings to help his Sydney brigade fight fires or clear storm damage, his captain said.




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Tony Abbott reveals why he REALLY became a firefighter amid bushfire crisis 

Former PM Tony Abbott spoke of going up against 20m walls of flame, leading crews into the inferno, and what inspired him to join, telling his story along with three other NSW RFS members.




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Tony Abbott filmed working to control a bushfire over the weekend in Bendalong 

The former prime minister donned a breathing apparatus and oxygen tank in 45C heat as he fought a fire that engulfed a home in Bendalong over the weekend.




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Tony Abbott greets army reserve troops as he arrives in Nowra to fight fires

Tony Abbott has arrived at the Rural Fire Service in south coast of New South Wales, as he prepares for another day of battling blazes.




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Tony Abbott pours himself a beer after long day of fighting fires

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott was seen treating himself to an ice cold beer at the Snow Goose Hotel in Adaminaby, after a long day of battling blazes in NSW. 




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Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey dishes on his relationship with Donald Trump at farewell

The party was hosted by Australian billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt, with former prime minister Tony Abbott and golfer Greg Norman among the star-studded guest list.




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Tony Abbott tells Heritage Foundation 'every extreme weather' is wrongly linked to climate change'

Mr Abbott said the fires were always going to happen in a country like Australia and hit out at those saying global warming was the cause as almost 'religious' in their beliefs.




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Tony Abbott calls for more 'middle-class' women to have children and says women on welfare have lots

Speaking at an event at Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney on Tuesday night, Mr Abbott said lower birthrate figures among the middle class were a 'real problem'.




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Tony Abbott's daughter Frances celebrates two year wedding anniversary

Frances Loch, 28, posted a photo of her wedding day that highlighted how much her life has changed since she wed Sam Loch on Valentines Day 2018 - most notably her radically different haircut.




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Tony Abbott calls for a 'complete shutdown' of Australia as the only way to limit COVID-19 spread

Tony Abbott said he believes Australia's response to the pandemic has been 'better' than other countries as the government has been thinking of a scenario such as this for many years.




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Pope Francis changes Lord's Prayer after saying it implied that God can lead us astray 

Pope Francis has approved altering 'lead us not into temptation' to 'do not let us fall into temptation' because he believes it shifts the responsibility onto Satan.




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Pope Francis bans ambassadors from blogging or criticizing his policies

In a document handed to more than 100 ambassadors in Rome for meetings with top Vatican officials, Francis told the envoys they had to 'live for the things of God and not for those of the world'.




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Madonna says she'd like a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss a woman's right to choose

Madonna revealed she would like a meeting with Pope Francis in a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Denton which aired on Tuesday night. 




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The Pope is bombarded with insults after telling people to pray for migrants on his Twitter feed

'Migrants are first of all human persons, and that they are the symbol of all those rejected by today's globalised society,' the pontiff tweeted on Monday.




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Pope Francis shares cryptic tweet as he breaks his silence on George Pell's failed bid for freedom

The most powerful figure in the Catholic Church took to social media to share a cryptic tweet in the hours after the Victorian Supreme Court turned down Pell's appeal against sex abuse convictions.




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First shots of Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Benedict and Francis in new film The Two Popes

The new film, due to be released in the UK December, follows is being billed as an intimate tale about one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the Catholic Church's history.




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Pope Francis celebrates open-air mass for one MILLION people in Madagascar

Crowds of worshippers waved yellow-and-white Vatican flags and cheered as the Popemobile made its way into the stadium in the capital Antananarivo (pictured).




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Pope Francis arrives in Mauritius and is greeted by 100,000 people waving palm leaves

Pope Francis is in Mauritius to honour a 19th century French missionary who ministered to free slaves. Roughly 100,000 people attended the service during country's first papal visit since 1989.




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Pope Francis swaps Popemobile for the back seat of a Fiat Tipo as he arrives to celebrate Mass

Attendants to a Mass with the Pope at a cathedral in Albano on the outskirts of Rome were surprised when His Holiness appeared from the back of a Fiat Tipo, rather than the usual Popemobile.




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The Pope calls for people to 'give up using adjectives'

Francis had been addressing the Vatican Dicastery for Communication which he founded in 2015 to catapult the tradition-centred Church into the digital age.




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Pope Francis warns Silicon Valley to be careful AI does not lead to a new 'form of barbarism' 

Speaking at a three-day event, Pope Francis warned Silicon Valley and tech giants in the audience to be ware AI doesn't lead to a new 'form of barbarism', resulting in the manipulation of millions.




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Pope Francis on Monday hit out at 'offensive words' spoken against the Amazon's indigenous people

The Pope made the comments during a three-week meeting to discuss the priest shortage in the Amazon. The Vatican are considering ordaining married men and giving women ministries.




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Vatican is forced to deny claim that the Pope questioned Christ's divinity

In a statement given on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesperson insisted comments published in La Repubblica by Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari were not a 'faithful account of what was actually said'.




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Victorian priest Cardinal John Henry Newman set to make history as he is canonised at the Vatican

Cardinal John Henry Newman is to be canonised at the Vatican in Rome tomorrow. Prince Charles will make speech and woman claiming miracle after praying to Cardinal will be there.




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Vatican cash crisis: Holy See loses €44million in a year as donations plummet

Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi (pictured) writes that the Vatican lost nearly €44million (£38million) last year while its property empire made a loss for the first time.




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Vatican's Secret Archive gets less secret as Pope Francis renames it to lose 'negative' connotation

Pope Francis has renamed the once 'secret' archive to the Vatican Apostolic Archive. He is also opening the archive of World War II-era Pope Pius XII next year, eight years early.




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The Two Popes: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce depict tensions of Catholic Church in new trailer

The film, set to release on December 20, will showcase the transition of power between Benedict (Hopkins, 81) and Francis (Pryce, 72), with the latter taking over the papacy from the former in 2013.




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Pope Francis considers introducing new 'ecological sin' in bid to battle climate change 

Speaking in Rome on Friday, Pope Francis said it's 'a duty' to introduce 'the sin against ecology' to the Catholic Church's teachings as a way to protect 'our common home'.




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Anthony Hopkins and The Two Popes co-star Jonathan Pryce look friendly at Netflix film's premiere

The Silence Of The Lambs star, 81, wrapped his arm around the 72-year-old actor's shoulders as they arrived in style on the red carpet during AFI FEST 2019 in Hollywood, California, on Monday.




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Pope Francis urges worshippers to respect prostitutes and trafficking victims in Thailand

Pope Francis concluded the first full day of his visit to Thailand by leading Mass for 60,000 Catholics, urging respect for sex workers, trafficking victims, drug addicts, and 'exploited sinners'.