British RoyalsFeaturesHistory

Royal Weddings: Wedding of Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall

Just months after the high profile wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, Zara Phillips married her longtime boyfriend, Mike Tindall. It wasn’t a wedding full of cameras and politicians but an event with a down to earth feeling. Zara Phillips is the granddaughter of The Queen and daughter of Anne, Princess Royal. Her father, Captain Mark Phillips, an English Olympic gold medal-winning…
Read more
FeaturesHistory

Monarchy Rules: King Edward III

Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France. The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with the Barons, and King Edward II still…
FeaturesHistory

The Duke of Kent: Queen Victoria's missing father

We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of genuine closeness and affection. The death of the Duchess of Kent in 1861 – nine months as history would show, prior to the death of Prince Albert – provoked an…
Read more
FeaturesHistory

Queen Alexandra's Wedding Dress exhibited in Bath

The wedding dress worn by Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Princess of Wales and Queen Alexandra is displayed as part of the current exhibition Royal Women, in Bath’s Fashion Museum. Kept in the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Kensington Palace, the dress is on loan from the Royal Collection by gracious permission of Her Majesty The Queen. It is an appropriate highlight exhibit given…
Read more
FeaturesHistory

The first royal wedding at Windsor

Windsor’s first royal wedding took place in the twelfth century. What do we know about this wedding and why exactly did it take place at Windsor Castle? It was the second marriage of the third Norman King, Henry I (r. 1100-35). His thirty-five-year reign was one without…
British RoyalsFeaturesHistory

Royal Weddings: The wedding of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon

Princess Margaret’s years as a single woman were followed with the most considerable interest in Britain, where there was a great deal of excitement over her choice of husband. It was assumed in 1955 that she would marry Peter Townsend. However, Townsend was a divorcee at a time when the Church of England wouldn’t allow the remarriage of a divorcee with a living former spouse. Princess…
Read more