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Colin Edwards RIP

Three minute read ▼ Those of a certain age will mourn the loss of one of Rhuthun/Ruthin’s most affable characters. Colin Edwards died this week, aged 82 or 83, informed sources say.  Colin was the local go-to guy when it came to royal matters. The m…

From Our Royal Correspondent

Till Monday's funeral, the media have nothing on which to report save for That Queue, shuffling its 22-hour-long way around Llundain/London. It's there to behold, seemingly permanently, on TV's red button and, among the random Britons you …

A Right Royal Reward

Colin Edwards is a hundred sovs better off today, thanks to the Express newspaper selecting his image of the queen as third in the paper's royal picture competition. He submitted six. Yesterday, Colin finished off preparations for this 170-photogr…

Spotting Colin

Methinks that the editors of this quarter's Town and Around are perhaps being a little mischievous. One of the images illustrating the article by Colin Edwards on 'Growing Up in Ruthin in the 1940s and 1950s' is this. Here is a perhaps sub…

The Colin Edwards Show

It seemed fitting to watch BBC 1's hour-long programme "Diana: the last princess of Wales" on the eve of today's 20th anniversary of her death. An arch-republican and nationalist rather summed up the mood by saying how he 'real…

A Right Royal Letdown

I was very much looking forward to seeing Colin Edwards's photographs of Diana, the late princess of Wales. Not because I am some sort of royalist like the photographer himself but because of the quality and consistency of the images he's take…

A Loyal Subject

Colin Edwards is again exhibited some of his collection of personal English royal photographs. For nearly two weeks, as his personal tribute to the celebration of the royal 90th, he has about 100 photographs of the queen on show in St Peter's Ch…

A Right Royal Ruthinian

Dear Colin Edwards is something of a Rhuthun/Ruthin celeb. Actually, I think someone should add him as a notable resident on Wikipedia's Rhuthun page. Famed for his amateur English royal watching, he's often in the local and regional newspap…

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