The 888,246 ceramic poppies that made up the stunning art installation at the Tower of London have been sold, raising $12.8 million (approximately £8 million) which will be equally distributed among six service charities. The installation, called ‘Blood...

The Royal Household, which takes care of Buckingham Palace, has signed up to a carbon-cutting club in which a network of organisations swap practical tools and techniques to lower their carbon footprint. This latest move is a...

As the process of dismantling the art installation at the Tower of London began, a long-serving gardener at the Hampton Court Palace was given the honour of the picking the first ceramic poppy. 66 year-old John Mould...

Hampton Court Palace unveiled its new gallery this week. The ‘Cumberland Art Gallery’ will now occupy the Georgian suite of rooms William Kent designed for King George II and Queen Caroline’s youngest son, William Augustus, the...

The final poppy was ‘planted ‘at the Tower of London on Tuesday, completing the ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’, the ceramic art installation conceived by Paul Cummins. Cummins, a graduate and now PhD student...

The Queen’s Scottish home has had a near record number of visitors this year. Over 70,000 tourists visited Balmoral this summer – a figure that is five percent more than it was last year.   This increase in tourist numbers means...

In the last instalment in my Guide to London, I stopped off at Buckingham Palace. Now we move on to another Palace, Kensington. I was really looking forward to this visit (not that I wasn’t for any...

The Banqueting House, which is located across from Horse Guards Parade, is the only complete building of Whitehall Palace which still exists, and acted as the sovereign’s primary home from 1530 until the reign of William...

If you’re anything like me, you probably like visiting historical places that have royal associations, as much as you like reading about them. So here are my top 10 favourite “royal” places, which I have visited,...

Following on from The Tower of London in my new ‘Royalists guide to London’ series, we move to another historic and Royally special site: Hampton Court Palace. This is a palace I have wanted to visit ever since my passion...