Top 10 Royal Moments 2014

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1. Prince George's first official engagement.

The future King's first foreign tour will go down in history.  His parents introduced him to the people of New Zealand and Australia, who may one day call him their head of state.

2. George meets his bilby namesake.

There were many highlights of the royal tour down under but the top spot in Australia must surely go to the day that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took their by then almost nine-month-old son to Taronga Zoo, a Sydney landmark, to meet Australia’s version of the Easter Bunny, a bilby, named after George.

3. The Queen's intervention in the Scottish referendum debate.

This will go down as the most controversial royal moment of 2014 and may come back to haunt the British monarchy in future.  Four days before Scots voted on whether to break away from the rest of the United Kingdom, the 88-year-old monarch told well-wishers at Crathie Kirk, close to her Balmoral estate, that she hoped the people of Scotland would "think very carefully about the future" before voting.

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2014: The Year the Royals Charmed the World

Kate and Wills won hearts from Australia to New York while Harry triumphed with his Invictus Games. Royal Editor Robert Jobson looks back on a good year for the Windsors — and ahead to a new addition.

Next year the Royal Family will take centre stage again with the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s  second child.  In April cameras from around the world will be once more trained on St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, where Kate is expected to have the baby.

While some believe it will not generate a media frenzy on a par with the birth of Prince George, I am sure as soon as the first photographer’s ladder goes down it will all start again.
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It was a good year too for Prince Harry. After giving up the job he loved, flying helicopters in the Army Air Corps, he threw his talents into staging the Invictus Games in September. It was an ambitious and worthy cause, to showcase the courage of injured servicemen and women and the importance of sport in their rehabilitation. It was undoubtedly a success.

Harry, perhaps more than any other royal, has the wow factor. Like his late mother Diana, Harry can interact with people whoever they are, wherever they come from.
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It was a good year for Prince Charles and Camilla too, as they played an important role at the D-Day commemorations, supporting the Queen. There can be little doubt that the Prince has the aura of a statesman. Supported by Camilla, going forward he will take on more of his mother’s work.

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2014: A Rundown of the Royal Year

The year started with a new member of the family when Zara Tindall gave birth to baby Mia - the Queen's fourth great-grandchild.

January also saw a career move for Prince Harry, with the announcement that he would take on organising army commemorative events.

There was a bit of controversy over the financing of the Royal Household, which some saw as being immune from the Government's spending cuts.  One senior MP suggested the royals start renting out Buckingham Palace to make a bit more cash for the taxpayer.

At the start of February Prince Charles was in Somerset to express his sympathy for local people hit by flooding.

More: 2014: A rundown of the Royal Year - ITV News 

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