Blog Posts
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Opinion: It’s time Thomas Markle let his daughter goThomas Markle was catapulted into the spotlight when his daughter, Meghan began dating Prince Harry and even more when it was...
10th August 2018 -
Before they were royal: The early life of Antony Armstrong-JonesAntony Armstrong-Jones was born on the 7th March 1930, the son of barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones and his first wife Anne Messel,...
9th August 2018 -
Royal Heritage: author Matthew Lewis on Northampton’s Eleanor’s CrossThe Eleanor’s Cross at Hardingstone in Northampton is a monument to medieval love. It’s one of a dozen crosses built on...
8th August 2018 -
An Imperial Russian summer at WindsorThe visit of the future Tsar Nicholas II to Queen Victoria in the summer of 1894 has a fabled quality; it...
8th August 2018 -
Before they were royal: The life of Princess Mabel of Orange-NassauPrincess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, or Mabel of Orange as she is known in her daily life, is today world widely praised...
7th August 2018 -
Queen Victoria in her letters and journalsQueen Victoria began her journal in 1832 at the age of thirteen and continued to keep it until old age, with...
7th August 2018 -
‘Dearest Mary’: Letters from the last Tsarina‘What sorrows this last year brought us, what endless anxieties, what worries and losses – God grant the new year may...
6th August 2018 -
The reign of King Baudouin: The one day he was considered unable to ruleThis year marks 25 years since King Baudouin of Belgium unexpectedly died while on holiday in Spain. He was the sixth...
6th August 2018 -
Looking at the wedding of Queen Victoria in objectsQueen Victoria famously wrote of her wedding day – 10 February 1840: ‘“Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!”...
6th August 2018 -
Before they were royal: The life of Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of LuxembourgCountess Stéphanie de Lannoy was born in Renaix, Belgium, on 18 February 1984. She is the eighth and youngest child of...
5th August 2018