But a spokeswoman for the Historic Royal Palaces, which is responsible for the Tower's conservation, said it was not related to the collapse on 14 February.

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Ms Weir opens vividly with descriptions of the splendours of royal palaces and ceremonies, sumptuously illustrated from the Household Ordinances and accounts, records of tournaments and the dispatches of ambassadors.

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Soon the firm started doing interiors for royal palaces.

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More than 6, 000 mentally unstable people have persistently visited royal palaces or written to the Royal Family over the past six years, according to a police report.

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He developed close ties to the royal family, winning the contracts to build some of Saudi Arabia's most prized mosques and palaces.

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All designs are custom, but there are deep archives of patterns used by Italian nobility that have served as inspiration for A-list designers doing homes from London to Los Angeles, as well as royal palaces in Sweden and Denmark and the Kremlin.

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