Palaces & BuildingsState & Ceremonial

VIDEO: The Queen's Guards perform Bohemian Rhapsody outside Buckingham Palace

The Queen’s Guards have performed a special rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody outside of Buckingham Palace. The Band of the Grenadier Guards played the Queen melody on Monday to the delight of onlookers. Bohemian Rhapsody at Buckingham Palace today 🎶🎺 So cool!pic.twitter.com/ULB6trWVHX — M ♡ (@gua_x2) January 7, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Just hours earlier, it was…
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Princess Anne and Family

Princess Anne was the busiest royal in 2018 having completed 518 engagements

The annual survey of the Royal Family’s public engagements has been released in the customary letter to the Times from the paper’s ‘unofficial royal archivist’, Tim O’Donovan, now on his 39th year of conducting the survey. A total of 3,793 engagements were performed by the 15 members of the Royal Family classed as working royals within the Court Circular. There has been an increase in…
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Insight

In Memoriam: Remembering those who died in 2018

Many friends and relatives of the Royal Family have died this year, as well as royals from across Europe and the world. Here we remember some of those who passed away in 2018. Torben Eskerod Prince Henrik of Denmark In February, Prince Henrik of Denmark died at the age of 83…
Princess Anne and FamilyQueen Elizabeth IIThe Edinburghs

The Queen attends Church alongside Princess Anne and The Earl & Countess of Wessex

The Queen attended Church on Sunday morning in Sandringham where she was joined by her two of her children, Princess Anne and Prince Edward. Her Majesty arrived at St Mary Magdalene Church by car. She was wearing a bright magenta outfit with a matching hat alongside her trusted handbag. Joining the monarch for the service was the Earl and Countess of Wessex, alongside their daughter, Lady Louise…
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Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast once again tops Christmas TV ratings

The Queen’s Christmas Day Broadcast has once again topped the TV ratings as more than 6.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the message in the UK alone. The traditional speech was watched by a combined 6.4 million people on the BBC, ITV and Sky. The true figure is probably much higher, however, as it does not include the people watching online. [commentary] The most-watched TV programmes on…
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