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[Gov House Guernsey @GvHouseGuernsey]

A great pleasure to welcome Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh to #Guernsey as Patron of @UKSailTraining! Perfect conditions for a sail, whether in the Little Russell aboard Prolific or an Oppie on the Model Yacht Pond! @RoyalFamily @OYTSouth #SailTraining @sailingtrust

[BBC Guernsey @BBCGuernsey]

🙌🇬🇬 Ala Chalmers is through to the Olympic semi-final of the Men's 400m Hurdles!

Chalmers finished third in his heat with a time of 48.98.

#BBCOlympics #Olympics #Paris2024

[World Emoji Day 📅 @WorldEmojiDay]

Before this #WorldEmojiDay is over, we'd like to give a special shout-out to Sark, which is set to join its Channel Island pals Jersey 🇯🇪 and Guernsey 🇬🇬 in getting its own emoji! 🥳 🍾

🔗 https://t.co/VN5RKjl20O

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

"The Bailiwick has one of the oldest connections to the Crown. It is therefore a great joy to be here among you once more today to celebrate the close and special relationship which connects us."

Today at St Peter Port, Their Majesties attended the Special Sitting of the ‘States of Deliberation’.

Guernsey has its own parliament, laws, judiciary, government, flag, stamps and banknotes.

Records suggest that the States of Deliberation has existed in some form since the 15th Century and probably even earlier.

Nowadays, it comprises 40 voting members and it has become tradition that a special sitting takes place when the Monarch visits Guernsey for the first time.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🇬🇬 A spectacle of Guernsey culture and heritage!

📷🍻 The King and Queen have met local exhibitors and community groups on Crown Pier, including traditional Guernsey dancers and the island’s newly formed Nature Commission.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen has toured Hauteville House, the home of Victor Hugo during his exile in Guernsey.

🌊 Many masterpieces were written here, including Les Misérables, Toilers of the Sea, and The Man Who Laughs.

The house is a work of art, designed by Victor Hugo himself.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🐐 Golden Guernsey Goats!

At Les Cotils, Their Majesties have granted a Royal Title to the rare Golden Guernsey Goat breed, which was rescued by Miriam Milbourne from oblivion after she discovered some in the scrub herds of the island in 1924.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🎈Birthday celebrations started early in Guernsey yesterday …

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🎂 Wishing Her Majesty The Queen a very Happy Birthday today!

[NATO Allied Land Command @LANDCMD]

WE REMEMBER COL VASYL PICHNENKO 🇺🇦

LANDCOM rendered honors with a ceremony for a former member of its staff: Ukraine officer COL Vasyl Pichnenko.

On, June 6, 2022, COL Vasyl Pichneko was killed in action while serving his country.

@Ukraine @DefenceU @UkrLandForces

[Gov House Guernsey @GvHouseGuernsey]

Congratulations to the 2022 #Guernsey #QueensBirthdayHonours recipients: Advocate Peter Harwood OBE, Mr Jack Honeybill MBE, Mrs Marlene Place BEM and Mrs Tina Pipet MVO. Wonderful news and very well deserved! Thank you for all your hard work! #queensplatinumjubilee #jubilee

[Gov House Guernsey @GvHouseGuernsey]

Welcome Your Royal Highnesses to #Alderney! @RoyalFamily

[Guernsey Lit Fest @GuernseyLitFest]

Next week, join us for a special evening as Poet Laureate Simon Armitage reads from his latest books: Magnetic Field & his highly engaging translation of The Owl and the Nightingale.

Get tickets here: https://t.co/XeM1s53q1m

#GsyLitFest #NotJustABookThing

[Tom Fletcher @TFletcher]

Out today. Thank you to everyone who helped get it to this point. This one is dedicated to Mum and Dad.

[Tom Fletcher @TFletcher]

Very excited to be doing this with @WmCollinsBooks. Based on four years of research on how we can navigate this moment of fragility. Those conversations leave me optimistic. I hope that this book will do the same for you.

[Simon Shercliff @SimonShercliff]

Thank you to all the Iran-based Brits, friends and allies who joined us at @UKinIran War Graves Cemetery for our #RemembranceDay2021 service on a beautiful autumnal day in Tehran. We will remember.

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Snow beginning to settle on the mountains in Afghanistan. Winter looms and Afghanistan is on the brink of catastrophe. If the weather is as bad as experts are predicting this winter, the fear is that millions of Afghans will be threatened with acute hunger and widespread famine

[Euripides L Evriviades 🇨🇾🇪🇺 @eevriviades]

Digital Diplomacy 4.0: Return of the Jedi? by @TFletcher

#Fletcher was one of the 1st Ambassadors to “go digital.” 10 yrs on he reflects on what the 1st wave of “technodiplomats” got right & wrong & where #DigitalDiplomacy goes next…

https://t.co/ft6PdPAVnW

#Diplomacy

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

Was fortunate enough to have spent an hour listening to @Sathnam talk about “Empireland” for @historybookgrp and can’t escape the fact that Empire is the prism by which we can view every facet of our history, our present and our future. Accepting this and moving forward is key.

[Tortoise @tortoise]

The Taliban’s inability to govern has led Afghanistan to the brink of collapse.

Rather than focusing on making sure everyone has the basics to survive, they have invested their energy in brutalising women and girls.

@lynnekodonnell reports: https://t.co/zx1L8VjDJ5