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 that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
embarked on 175 years ago. What makes the trip more special is that
descendants of the…
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…
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 initial schooling in Luxembourg,
he boarded at a school in Switzerland before enrolling at the Royal
Military Academy in…
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…
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 joined more than 89,000 fans ahead
of the FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea in observing a
minute’s silence ahead…
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…
News footage of the newest French
President, Emmanuel Macron, assuming his title as President of
France has been awash for the past few weeks, as the youngest
leader of France since Napoleon begins to take upon himself the new
duties and responsibilities of office. As well as receiving codes
for France’s nuclear arsenal and the badge of office as Grand
Master of the Légion d’Honeurr…
