The exclusive range of official pale blue
and white commemorative china, commissioned by Buckingham Palace to
mark the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been
released. Their wedding will take placeat St George’s Chapel,
Windsor, on 19 May 2018. Made from English bone china, the design
features the coronet of His Royal Highness, above the entwined
monogram of…
The year 2018 marked the 200th
anniversary of the death of the German-born British Queen
Charlotte, consort of George III (1744-1818). Her life will be
celebrated at Kew Palace, where she died on 18 November 1818, with
a new exhibition that explores her marriage to the King…
In addition to the six Tudor royal
burials at Westminster Abbey, there are several more whose location
is either unknown or well-hidden to the immediate eye. These royal
children, whilst (almost) invisible in terms of a lack of memorial
or a monument that is at best, unseen…
Queen Victoria is inextricably linked
with Windsor Castle, but these associations, whilst deep-rooted,
are in fact not always visible. A statue of her is within the first
section of the State Apartments at Windsor Castle and her throne
and footstool – presented to her in 1851 – upon which she chose to
be photographed officially as Empress of India, is displayed in the
Garter Throne Room. A…
On 20 March 2018, Westminster Abbey
released a statement that the late Professor Stephen Hawking who
passed away on 14 March 2018, would be honoured with a Special
Thanksgiving Service, during which his ashes would be interred at
the Abbey; a second statement was released on…
Amongst the splendid suite of jewels
commissioned for Queen Victoria by Prince Albert, features in the
permanent exhibition Victoria Revealed at Kensington Palace, when
it re-opened in full on 30 March 2018, two magnificent tiaras which
were formerly owned by Louise…
Buckingham Palace's Summer Opening Exhibition to mark 70th Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
28th March 2018
During the ten weeks of the Summer
Opening of the State Rooms in 2018, visitors to Buckingham Palace
will be able to enjoy a unique exhibition to mark the 70th Birthday
of HRH The Prince of Wales, entitled Prince and Patron, the Royal
Collection has announced today. His Royal Highness’s acknowledged
love of art is reflected in work supported by three select
charities under his patronage…
At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in
the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey,
there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
had been newly granted the title, style…
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s
relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult
in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually
improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of
genuine closeness and affection. The…
This year marks the two hundredth
anniversary of British history’s double royal wedding at Kew
Palace, between the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Duke of
Clarence with Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. For the Duke and
Duchess of Kent, this was their second English wedding ceremony,
the first having been celebrated at Coburg, just less than two
months earlier. Historic Royal Palaces, the…
