The Order of Canada was established by
Her Majesty The Queen, as Queen of Canada, as part of the creation
of a Canadian honours system unique to the country and the
reduction of the use of British honours within the realm. The Order
of Canada recognises outstanding achievement, dedication to the
community and service to the nation and recognises all people from
all sectors of Canadian society.
Her Majesty The Queen, since her birth in
1926, has been granted the use of numerous official and unofficial
titles and styles befitting her position as a child of a royal
Duke, the heir presumptive to the throne, the spouse of a royal
Duke and as Sovereign. Although The…
The Swedish Laurel Wreath Tiara easily
stands out among a collection of impressive Swedish pieces. Despite
the classical laurel leaf motif being common among royal jewellery
throughout Europe, this piece is uniquely elegant with its tall
profile of double rows of diamond…
Ever since His Imperial Majesty, Emperor
Akihito, formally announced his intention to abdicate the Japanese
throne in a rare televised address last year, the island nation of
Japan has been somewhat abuzz with speculation as to what exactly
such an occurrence would entail. With no abdication of a Japanese
Emperor since Emperor Kokaku in 1817, and no provisions laid out in
the 1947 Japanese…
Those following the visit of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge to Warsaw last week may have observed the
Duchess playfully suggesting that they should try for a third
child, in response to the number of gifts they had received for
Prince George and Princess Charlotte from…
They have never met their grandmother,
but they surely know a good deal about her. Prince William has
revealed that bedtime stories for his children feature some
poignant memories from the life of his late mother, Diana, the
Princess of Wales. Speaking in a special ITV…
Handing over the handset to Harry, little
did a 15-year-old William know this was the last time he would hear
his mother’s voice. Nor did his younger brother realise he would
never have another chance to cut the phone call short. The two
princes have recalled with regret the last phone conversation with
their late mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, only hours before
she died in a car crash in…
He has been in office for seven years,
but Her Majesty’s representative in Canada will most likely be
remembered for a spontaneous reaction he made very late in his
tenure. Embed from Getty Images Canada’s Governor General David
Johnston has come out to defend…
Archaeology is a lot of fun. You never
know what you might dig up, left over years ago by absentminded
ancestors. Coins, old rubbish, bits of pottery, scraps of letters,
an unexploded ordinance that could take out half the street if it’s
so much as looked at funny. The…
The Duchess of Cornwall’s popularity is
on the up, but when it comes to choosing a Queen, more people would
still want to see Princess Diana take the title. A new poll by the
Mirror newspaper has shown that 61% would have preferred the late
Princess of Wales to be Queen when Prince Charles eventually takes
the throne, while 14% said they would choose Camilla. But up to 39%
of 2,000 people…
