The annual ballot for tickets to
attend The Queen’s Birthday Parade has officially opened.
Trooping the Colour will this year take place on Saturday 17th
June 2017. If you would like to attend this year’s event, you will
need to write to the Brigade Major before the balloting closes on
February 28th. Once you have written to the Brigade Major, you
will be allocated a place in the ballot…
The Queen is unable to attend Divine
Service at Sandringham on New Year’s Day due to illness, Buckingham
Palace has confirmed. The Queen was scheduled to make her first
public appearance for over two weeks this morning for a traditional
church service on her Norfolk…
Uncertainty as to whether The Queen will be well enough to attend Church tomorrow morning
31st December 2016
Uncertainty surrounds whether The Queen
will be well enough to make her first public appearance for two
weeks tomorrow morning, as she is due to attend Divine Service at
Sandringham. The 90-year-old monarch traditionally attends the
Sunday morning Church services at…
Arise Sir Andy Murray, Sir Mo Farah & Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill! New Year Honours in full
30th December 2016
Team GB Olympians Andy Murray, Mo Farah
and Jessica Ennis-Hill are among those being honoured in the 2017
New Year Honours list, which also recognises the achievements of
other well-known faces, including Ken Dodd and Patricia Routledge.
Andy Murray and Mo Farah will each be knighted in the New Year,
alongside Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katherine Grainger who will become
dames. Others receiving awards…
1. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh’s 70th
wedding anniversary Of all the events to happen in 2017, this is
probably the most anticipated. On November 20th 2017, The
91-year-old Queen and 96-year-old Duke of Edinburgh will celebrate
a milestone 70 years of…
BBC presenter Lynn Faulds Wood turns down MBE saying honours need to be dragged "into 21st Century"
30th December 2016
Lynn Faulds Wood, the former presenter of
consumer affairs programme BBC Watchdog, has turned down an MBE in
the Queen’s New Year Honours, saying the system has to be dragged
“into the 21st Century”. The Scottish television presenter said
that she would be…
The Queen has fallen victim to an
internet death hoax – the second time this year. A fake Twitter
account, set up in the style of BBC News, posted the
message: “BREAKING: Buckingham Palace announces the death of
Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 90. Circumstances are unknown.
More to follow.” Twitter users, believing the account to be
genuine, then shared the tweet exposing it to…
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
2016. The Duke of Westminster In August, Major-General Gerald
Cavendish Grosvenor, The Duke of…
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 38th year of conducting the survey. A total
of 3,725 engagements were…
Prince Harry travelled approximately
61,800 miles in 2016 whilst undertaking official overseas
engagements, according to analysis conducted by the Press
Association. The Prince, who undertook a two-week tour of the
Caribbean this year, finished the year travelling 400 more miles
than his uncle, the Earl of Wessex, who was the second most
travelled royal. Countries where Prince Harry visited in…
