Other

Three royal weddings and a birthday

Basking in the exhilaration of Prince George’s recent nativity, royal watchers everywhere were treated to more blissful news this weekend as three royal couples were given their fairytale “happily ever after”. Prince Rahim finds a princess Prince Rahim, the eldest son of His Highness Aga Khan IV, wed beautiful supermodel Kendra Spears in a private ceremony on the shores of Lake Geneva in…
Read more
Other

Prince Charles's close friend Hugh van Cutsem dies

A close confidant of the Prince of Wales, Hugh van Cutsem died yesterday at the age of 72. The former officer in the Household Cavalry also happened to occupy the country residence, now tipped to be for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Anmer Hall – on The Queen’s…
Other

Prince William to host Buckingham Palace's first football match

Prince William is to host Buckingham Palace’s first football match to celebrate the Football Association’s 150th birthday. The Duke of Cambridge, president of the FA, is planning to use the Queen’s back lawns for the match which will see the Civil Service FC and Polytechnic FC go head to head at the Palace on October 7. Prince William will host a football match at Buckingham Palace. “In…
Read more
Insight

The Spanish Armada - Queen Elizabeth I's Greatest and Only Success?

“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble Woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and a King of England too” (Queen Elizabeth I to her troops at Tilbury) What springs to mind when you think about Elizabeth I, is it ‘The Virgin Queen’, ‘Gloriana’ or maybe The Spanish Armada? It’s the last of these that I want to focus on in this blog today – The Spanish Armarda. Can…
Read more
Other

'No flat for the Middletons' at Kensington Palace

A Palace source has confirmed that no suite of rooms is being reserved for the Middletons in four-storey Apartment 1A. photo credit: Mikepaws via photopin cc There had been speculation that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were having a “granny suite” built so as to…
History

Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg

On a spring day, April 14th 1857 the last of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children was born.  The little princess’s baptism took place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on the 16th June 1857, she wore the same baptism gown that was worn by her elder…
Other

Wedding rumours engulf week's royal news - but are any true?

Almost every available member of the Royal Family has been the subject of wedding rumours over the last week it seems. From the original thoughts that Princess Beatrice might be marrying Dave Clark and now to the possibility of the Duke of York remarrying Sarah Ferguson as well as Prince Harry wedding rumours – the week has been a veritable smorgasbord of royal wedding rumours – but which (if…
Read more