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…
