Around 400 military personnel and
musicians will perform together in the largest ever Royal Marines
Beating Retreat. The Retreat is a military pageant of music, as
well as a precision drill, and will be held on the 3rd and 4th June
on Horse Guards Parade. Prince Philip, Captain General of the Royal
Marines, will celebrate his 93rd birthday on June 10th, continuing
his reign as the longest-ever…
The Prime Minister of Australia, Tony
Abbott, announced earlier today that The Queen has amended letters
patent constituting the Order of Australia. This means that Her
Majesty can now award, on recommendation from the Australian Prime
Minister, the title of Knight or Dame…
last week’s episode, Professor Robert
Bartlett continues his investigation into England’s longest ruling
dynasty in the second installment of this BBC Two series, The
Plantagenets. Professor Bartlett discovers how the later
Plantagenet Kings strove to reclaim their lost…
The first engagement during Easter Court
this year is the unveiling of a Windsor Greys statue in Windsor
during which Prince William and Prince Philip will accompany her.
During her stay this year, The Queen is set to receive the
President of Ireland on a 4-day state visit at the Castle from
8th-11th April – one of two state visits Her Majesty will receive
throughout the course of this year. She…
Led by Rosemary Ussher, a group of
Windsor residents raised £200,000 to fund the construction and
installation a statue of a pair of Her Majesty’s Windsor Grey
horses on the roundabout. “The Jubilee fountain in the Goswells
looks fantastic and when the Windsor Greys is…
For 634 years, some form of monarchy had
been in operation in Russia, first as the Principality of Moscow,
then as the Tsardom of Russia, and more recently, the Russian
Empire with some of the most high profile monarchs to ever reign in
Europe from Ivan the Terrible to…
Plenty of Europe’s royals have attempted
to scale the heights at the Olympic Games But it doesn’t mean
you’re going to end up on the podium either. There have been
just a handful of royal medallists in the history of the Games, but
that hasn’t stopped the regal athletes making the biggest
headlines. The gold medal for highest profile with no royal wins
has to go to Britain where no one…
A servant was sent the notes from the
Royal couple, which complained about the food they received, and
their dietary preferences. George V was never known for his humour,
nor was his wife, and so the tone of the letters comes as no
surprise to anyone familiar with the Royal…
Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth
in 2009 after it refused to go ahead with elections that
year. The Fijian government says the decision is recognition
of the progress Fiji is making towards the introduction of its
first genuine democracy with elections to be held…
In a recent interview, the accomplished
78-year-old visionary with the signature white ponytail admitted to
being awestruck by the 87-year-old Monarch’s classic sense of
style… “Nobody does the job better than [The Queen] does. She is
never ridiculous; she is flawless,” said the eclectic fashion guru,
who is particularly impressed by The Queen’s clever use of ‘the
power suit’ for…
