A newly published book by royal
biographer Tom Quinn has revealed that a member of The Royal Family
received a reputation for being something of a firestarter. In his
book, Mr Quinn goes behind palace doors to reveal some of the
secrets of the servants and staff who worked in Buckingham Palace
over the years. One of the revelations is that Prince Philip’s
mother, Princess Alice of…
The Prince of Wales has written the
foreword for an upcoming memoir penned by Holocaust Survivor Lily
Ebert (97) and her great-grandson, Dov Forman (17.) Born in
Hungary, the upcoming book, Lily’s Promise: How I Survived
Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live, will be…
He spent his earliest years in her
company and now the Prince of Wales has paid his own tribute to the
paternal grandmother he described as ”inspirational”. Prince
Charles made his comments as he visited the grave of Princess
Alice, mother of the Duke of…
In the summer of 1878, Queen Victoria’s
second daughter, Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, came to
Eastbourne, because she had been ordered rest. The sojourn on the
East Sussex coast was the gift of Queen Victoria to her daughter,
(David Duff, Hessian Tapestry, 177) and Alice visited the seaside
town with her family in what would poignantly prove to be the last
holiday that they would…
She had been an integral part of the
House of Windsor for almost seventy years; she was the oldest ever
member of the Royal Family, and she had lived an adventure packed
life that broke the regal mould in many ways. The death of Princess
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, on…
The third son of King George V and Queen
Mary, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was born on 31 March 1900.
He was the first son of a monarch to be educated at school and went
onto study at Eton College. His life was full of tragedy starting
with not being able to continue…
