Much as the Royal Family is enjoying the
current resurgence in popularity, things do feel rather clinical
and perfect of late. By comparison, the nineties were a tumultuous
and especially colourful time. High glamour, low morals, divisive
personalities – real soap opera stuff. A sporting time for avid
royal watchers… and we were in the thick of it. As a child, I grew
up with the Royal…
The Duke of York launches iDEA Digital Enterprise Award and says 'failure is good for children’
1st April 2014
The iDEA pilot scheme hopes to support
1,000 budding entrepreneurs by investing £150,000 into their ideas
for business plans. The Digital Enterprise Award will enable young
business men and women to build digital prototypes to test the
viability of their business plan. The…
Hanoverians: The First Georges which will
air on BBC Four this month. The First Georgians presenter portrait.
First of all let me thank you for taking the time and say what an
honour it is to interview you. No way! That’s just so unbelievably
courteous of you. It’s…
The Prince of Wales, a long-time devotee
of the Welsh harp tradition, has given a harp to the Wales
International Harp Festival. The international event takes place
next month in Caernarvon. The harp is the national instrument of
Wales. The Telynau Teifi harp made by Llandysul based harp makers
and crafted by chief harp maker Allan Shiers, will be awarded to
the harpist who places first in under…
The Plantagenets, Professor Robert
Bartlett reveals the events that led to the downfall of England’s
longest ruling dynasty in the fifteenth century. The Death of
Kings sees Professor Bartlett discuss the bloodiest decades of
the Plantagenet’s history. Bartlett takes…
Sir Peter was sworn in to his new
position by Chief Justice Robert French in the
Senate Chamber at Parliament House. The ceremony took place in
front of his wife, Lady Cosgrove, Australia’s Prime Minister
Tony Abbott, the Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop, and…
Alan Jones, chairman of the Village
Bakery, recently recreated a baking scene from the opening of
Erddig Hall, when he recalled the time he burned The Prince of
Wales. The Wrexham mansion was officially opened in
1977, where Prince Charles was a guest of honour, and
this year, a video was filmed there for the updated Village
Bakery’s website. Back in 1977, Alan was baking bread in the
old…
It was heralded as “one of the biggest
archaeological finds in history,” according to The Leicester
Mercury. The remains of Richard III that was discovered in a
Greyfriars car park in February 2013 is now in question. Professor
Michael Hicks the head of history at the…
They are the men who have been on hand at
some of the most pivotal moments in royal history. Among their
number are those who took King John to sign the Magna Carta, or who
carried Anne Boleyn on her coronation day. In modern times, they
were at the heart of the Diamond…
Every other member of the present Royal
Family, including Her Majesty’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh, have
given interviews with the media – but The Queen herself, she
remains resolute. She has certainly come close over the years,
with several notable examples which have been recorded and are in
existence today. The most prominent of these occasions was in 1992
when, for a BBC documentary to…
