British RoyalsPalaces & Buildings

Picnic at Buckingham Palace for the first time ever this summer

With lockdown lifted, Brits are looking forward to meeting their friends and family in parks and gardens again, and this year a rather unique picnicking venue has presented itself for your socially distant gatherings. The Royal Collection Trust announced Wednesday that in addition to offering a select number of palace tours this year, they’ll be welcoming guests to Buckingham…
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Buckingham Palace video shows Palace restoration project

A new video from Buckingham Palace shows work being done to restore the iconic building. More specifically, the video shows how officials are working to preserve its historic nineteenth-century wallpaper in the Yellow Drawing Room. The vital work will protect the wallpaper from getting damaged as nearby construction work continues as part of the Reservicing programme. Once the work is…
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History

Music for a Queen: Mozart and Queen Charlotte

The first and only time that the boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited London occurred between 1764-5, at about the half-way point of the Mozart family’s monumental European Grand Tour, which was to prove pivotal in Wolfgang’s developmental process as a composer, the beginning proper of those childhood travels he would make on his path towards musical maturity. Over the fifteen months that…
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British RoyalsKing Charles III

ICYMI: Sir Andy Murray receives knighthood from the Prince of Wales

Sir Andy Murray has received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace. The tennis star was honoured by the Prince of Wales with his wife and parents watching on. Sir Andy was given his knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List at the end of 2016 for services to tennis and to charity. The announcement came just months after he claimed his second Wimbledon men’s singles title and his second…
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