On 5th October, Sydney will welcome more than 40 warships into its harbour along with our very own Prince Harry as the city and the Royal Australian Navy celebrate the International Fleet Review.
Prince Harry is expected to receive a hats off three cheers royal salute next month from thousands of sailors as he stands pride of place at Sydney Harbour. It is expected he will be accompanied by…
Leanda de Lisle is a very in demand author at the moment – not only does she write for BBC History Magazine, History Today, The Literary Review and the Spectator, as well as national newspapers, her latest book Tudor: The Family Story has just been released and by…
In a newly revealed candid letter written after the 1936 Abdication Crisis, the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, allegedly reveals how the Royal Family warned him to stay away from England.
The letter, which was written in 1939, said the Duke was advised to stay away…
The Spanish Armada - Queen Elizabeth I's Greatest and Only Success?
28th August 2013
“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble Woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and a King of England too” (Queen Elizabeth I to her troops at Tilbury)
What springs to mind when you think about Elizabeth I, is it ‘The Virgin Queen’, ‘Gloriana’ or maybe The Spanish Armada?
It’s the last of these that I want to focus on in this blog today…
You may think that when someone takes a holiday abroad they may just want to lay back in the sun and relax. Well for me, I did just that, but what better way to relax in the sun than with a great book – a great royal history book at that.
Tudor-The Family Story by…
Like millions of others last night, I was an avid view of the BBC 1 adaptation of ‘The White Queen’, the reason I choose now to blog on the programme is because of the way Anne Neville was portrayed in last night’s episode. For some unknown reason I never…
This fourth blog in the series focuses on the joint married Monarchs, Queen Mary II and King William III. Queen Mary being the fifth Monarch of the House of Stuart and King William being the first Monarch (in England) of the House of Orange.
Mary was born on 30th April 1662 at St James’s Palace to the future King James II and his first wife Lady Anne Hyde. At the time of her birth, the…
The second instalment in this series of blogs focuses on the third Monarch of the House of Stuart, King Charles II.
Charles was born on 29th May 1630 at St James’s Palace to the reigning King Charles I and his consort Henrietta Maria (who was in fact the sister of…
As somebody who was not around at the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, in fact somebody who was born nearly 40 years after her accession, it was amazing to watch today the whole thing from start to finish. From the procession to Westminster Abbey, to…
