Peter Beales Roses claimed its 19th Royal Horticultural Society gold medal at last year's Chelsea Flower Show, where the nursery revealed three new roses at the show, including the Queen's Jubilee Rose.

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Stage, a graduate of the Royal Academy, also receives a gold medal.

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Very special, the second time that the Princess Royal has presented me with Olympic gold medal and her words were this is the second time I've given you a medal, I don't think I'll be doing it another, a third time.

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Last summer, Royal Mail rushed out stamps of all gold medal winners from Team GB and Paralympics GB, within 24 hours of each athlete's victory.

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The SpaceX CEO and chief designer was speaking at the Royal Aeronautical Society where he was being awarded a gold medal for his work to advance the commercialisation of space.

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"They're living walls, and they come in all sorts of colors, not just green, " Richard Sabin of BioTecture told CNN, and whose walls have been incorporated in Gold and Silver Gilt medal-winning gardens at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, London.

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