The Sussexes

A look back at the Duke of Sussex's life so far on his birthday

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15th September 2019
During the fall of 1984, Diana, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second son, a boy affectionately known as Harry. They revealed his full name would be Henry Charles Albert David, a perfect name for someone third in line to the throne. Harry is now sixth-in-line to the throne after his father Charles, brother William, and William’s three children (Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince…
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Belgium

Who is Queen Paola of Belgium?

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11th September 2019
Donna Paola Margherita Maria Antonia Consiglia Ruffo di Calabria was born on 11 September 1937 at Villa Claudia in Forte dei Marmi, Italy, as the seventh and youngest child of Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, a First World War flying ace, and Countess Luisa Gazelli, a…
History

On this day 40 years ago: Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb

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27th August 2019
On 27th August 1979 Her Majesty The Queen’s cousin, LordMountbatten, was tragically killed by an IRA bomb blast whilst on his boat in Ireland. It wasn’t just Mountbatten who perished in the boat; one of his twin grandson’s, Nicholas, and a local boat boy, Paul Maxwell, also died as a result of the bomb explosion. Another passenger on the boat, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, died the…
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The Gloucesters

Who is the Duke of Gloucester?

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26th August 2019
The Queen’s cousin celebrates his 75th birthday Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was born on the 26 August 1944; the youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, and the younger of two brothers born to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and his wife…
Features

Could The Queen be made Empress of Great Britain?

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3rd August 2019
On1 May 1876, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress Of India after discussion with Prime Minister of the day, Benjamin Disraeli led to Queen Victoria wanting a title boost after her daughter became Empress Of Germany. From 1876 until the Empire Of India was disbanded…
FeaturesHistoryInsight

A King's last journey

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12th July 2019
Frederick II, accorded the epithet ‘the Great’ already during his own lifetime, had in fact, a whole other life after death, aside from his legacy. The great King’s legend stalks the eighteenth century like a gigantic historic shadow, much as the oversize silhouette of him prowls the terrace at his beloved refuge of Sanssouci, the palace he built for himself at Potsdam, as portrayed by the…
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History

Music for a Queen: Mozart and Queen Charlotte

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23rd June 2019
The first and only time that the boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited London occurred between 1764-5, at about the half-way point of the Mozart family’s monumental European Grand Tour, which was to prove pivotal in Wolfgang’s developmental process as a composer, the beginning proper of those childhood travels he would make on his path towards musical maturity. Over the fifteen months that…
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