Prince Harry saluted soldiers performing
at the Beating Retreat earlier this week. The concert is held at
the Horse Guards Parade in Westminster. The Beating Retreat takes
place in front of St James’s Park, which accommodates a mammoth 58
acres of green space. The Beating Retreat is “a spectacular evening
pageant of music and military precision drill, including horses,
cannon and fireworks.”…
If you have purchased a train ticket from
Slough to Paddington for 13 June, there is an additional reason why
you don’t want to miss your trip; because the Queen and the Duke of
Edinburgh will board the Great Western Railway train to mark the
anniversary of a similar trip…
Prince Philip has served as The Queen’s
long-standing companion for nearly 70 years. The partnership with
The Queen is said to be one of the great achievements of The
Queen’s reign and is certainly one of true love and commitment.
Prince Philip has a long list of…
They were undoubtedly difficult times for
the newly-divorced couple. A turbulent marriage had just come to an
end and, understandably, emotions were running high. The immediate
thoughts and feelings of Prince Charles following his separation
from Diana, Princess of Wales in 1996 are captured in a letter he
sent to close friend and interior designer Dudley Poplak, set to be
auctioned off at Dominic…
Prince Félix is the second child of Grand
Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg and was
born 3rd June 1984 in Luxembourg. He is currently third in the line
of succession. He was named after his great-grandfather, Prince
Felix of Bourbon-Palma. After his…
It has been nearly a year since Emperor
Akihito appeared on Japanese national television — a rare and
auspicious event at the best of times — to announce his wish to
abdicate the throne and leave imperial duties to his younger and
more able-bodied son, Crown…
This August will be the 20th anniversary
of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and to mark the occasion
the Duke of Cambridge and his brother, Prince Harry, will be
speaking for the first time about their immediate reaction to the
loss of their mother in a new BBC1 documentary. The documentary’s
current working title is simply Diana. The Princes have recently
made several public speeches…
The tragic events in Manchester have
shaken the world. The whole country has come together to mourn the
young lives lost in Manchester Arena last Monday, and in football,
the grief was just as great. At Wembley, the nation’s biggest
football stadium, Prince William…
Knife-wielding man arrested outside Buckingham Palace as The Queen leaves for church service
24th May 2017
A man wielding a knife was wrestled to
the ground by at least eight police officers outside Buckingham
Palace as the United Kingdom raised its security status to
‘critical’, meaning a terror attack is ‘imminent’. The event
happened just as The Queen…
Last year His Imperial Majesty, the
Emperor Akihito of Japan, discretely indicated in a speech that he
desired to retire from his lofty position in a rare televised
address. Citing his advancing age and declining health, he
expressed his “worries that it may become difficult for [him] to
carry out [his] duties as the symbol of the state” effectively. He
also indicated doubts that the…
