Of all the current Royal Palaces, St James’s is the most senior and all foreign ambassadors to this country are still referred to as being appointed to the Court of St James’. This is perhaps ironic, as the palace was constructed in the 1530’s by King Henry VIII, as somewhere to escape from the rigid court life of the Palace of Whitehall. It was built on the site of a leper hospital…
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Margriet to honour Olympic medal winners
25th February 2018
It has been announced in the Netherlands, that the medal winners from both the Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be presented to King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Margriet on the 23rd March at the Noordeinde Palace. This will be the culmination of…
The spectacular pyramids which cover the tombs of the pharaohs are well-known, but the long-running excavation of the Western Cemetery at Giza has recently discovered the tomb of a female official from around 4500 years ago. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities announced the…
Countess of Wessex saves boy’s sight after noticing condition on trip to Bangladesh
21st January 2018
A young Bangladeshi boy has had an operation on a squint, following the Countess of Wessex meeting him and his parents, while she was visiting Bangladesh on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust last November, the Trust has announced. The announcement was made this week and coincided with the Countess’s fifty-third birthday. She had been out in the remote Bangladeshi village of…
A tomb has been discovered in the Tuva Region of Southern Siberia that pre-dates another found in the 1970s close by, in what archaeologists have dubbed the Siberian Valley of the Kings. This is dig, by Gino Caspari, an archaeologist from University of Bern, working with…
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia orders Kuwaiti child to be transferred to Riyadh for treatment
15th January 2018
It has been announced from Jeddah that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a member of the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia has stepped in and ordered the transfer of a very sick Kuwaiti child from a local maternity hospital in Kuwait to a state-of-the-art medical facility in…
In his annual Christmas address, Prince Hans-Adam II, the Head of State in Liechtenstein chose rather than a review of 2017 to describe the history of the principality. This is ahead of the upcoming celebration of 300 years since Liechtenstein became a dynastic principality. The Prince can trace his lineage via the direct male line to three of the previous fourteen Princes of Liechtenstein and a…
The British Monarchy has acquired residences across Great Britain through the centuries and moulded them to their own preferences. We look at the top five royal residences, how they were acquired, how they have changed over the centuries and the use that Queen Elizabeth II…
Long lost da Vinci painting spent time being passed around the Royal Family
18th November 2017
With a series of twists and turns similar to the television series “Fake or Fortune”, it has been revealed that the Leonardo da Vinci painting sold for $450 million dollars once graced the walls of both Greenwich Palace and the then Buckingham House, the latter which now…
Henry was born in Stirling Castle on 19th February 1594, the son of King James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark. James put Henry into the care of James Erskine, Earl of Mar, rather than his wife, Anne because he did not want him to be brought up a staunch Catholic. This did not sit well with his wife at all. However, the young Prince remained with the Mar family until 1603 when King James was…
