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Dream team: Prince Harry joins Prince William and Kate at the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations in June 2016<\/p>\n
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What were you doing in 2016? It’s the question everyone is answering online this week as social media users escape the bleak reality of January to the warmer climes of a nostalgic past. A quick flick through the Royal Family’s camera reel from 10 years ago reveals a House<\/a> of Windsor<\/a> that’s almost unrecognisable: Prince Harry, Prince William and Kate were a three-headed dream team; no one had heard of \u2018Megxit<\/a>\u2019; and Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating her 90th birthday with her beloved Prince Philip by her side. There were so many senior royals<\/a> still on the roster (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor among them), that Prince Edward<\/a> and Sophie, countess of Wessex (now the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a>) were relatively minor public<\/a> figures and had yet to see their profiles bloom. The then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge<\/a> started the year with a private family ski holiday to the French Alps and delighted royal watchers by sharing adorable photos of a two-year-old Prince George<\/a> and a 10-month-old Princess Charlotte<\/a> frolicking in the snow. The following month, Prince William<\/a> and Kate welcomed Barack Obama to Kensington Palace<\/a>. (2016 was also the year Donald Trump was first elected President of the United States \u2013 and the year of Brexit). A triumphant tour of Canada followed for the Waleses, as did a trip to India<\/a> and Bhutan. That summer saw the Rio Olympics and a particularly spectacular Trooping the Colour as the nation gathered to toast to Her Majesty’s milestone. There was heartache for Princess Beatrice<\/a>, who split from long-term boyfriend Dave Clark, and Mike and Zara Tindall<\/a> were struck by tragedy when a pregnancy ended in miscarriage. It was also the year Prince Harry<\/a> met a Californian actress from a US legal drama for a first date at Soho<\/a> House; a meeting that led to a royal wedding, Meghanmania, and eventually a rift in the royal family that, a decade ago, seemed unimaginable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dream team: Prince Harry joins Prince William and Kate at the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations in June 2016…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,447,532,448,32406,9321,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-prince-william","11":"tag-royals","12":"tag-the-duchess-of-sussex","13":"tag-the-princess-of-wales","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115905787547470483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}