It is not unusual for those who get the
chance to meet the Queen to speak of their awe at her
warm and kind character. And it seems that veteran actor Brian
Blessed is no different. Speaking after receiving an OBE from the
monarch at Windsor Castle for services to art and charity, the
79-year-old acting legend said that Her Majesty was ‘‘the finest
we’ve ever produced with mystical…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima opened the "Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography" exhibition
5th October 2016
Last Monday King Willem-Alexander
and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands opened the exhibition “Mapping
Australia: Country to Cartography” in the Aboriginal Art
Museum (AAMU) in Utrecht. The Royal Couple visited the exhibition
in preparation for the state visit…
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is back
from the USA and she has resumed her national agenda. Crown Prince
Frederik’s wife was in charge of opening the conference in
connection with the “Copenhagen Cultural Children’s
Summit”…
For a long time now, the Swedish Royal
Family has accustomed us to sweet moments shared on social media.
Often we are presented with new official photos, but also very
spontaneous and unexpected pictures of the newest members of the
family. Recently with the arrival of the Autumn, a new picture of
Prince Oscar was released. The youngest son of Crown Princess
Victoria and Prince Daniel, born on 2…
He has just wrapped up a successful
week-long tour in Canada, and it will be business as usual for
Prince William as soon as he returns home. The Duke of Cambridge
will be presenting the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition
Scheme Gold Awards, during a ceremony at the…
HMY Britannia by Tower Bridge. Credit:
Lynda Poulter via Wikimedia Commons. In service from 1954 until
1997, HMY Britannia is the former royal yacht of Her Majesty, Queen
Elizabeth II. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II
acceded to the British throne in 1660…
Francis, Duke of Teck, was born on this
day in 1837. He was the father of Queen Mary, the wife of King
George V, and therefore a great-grandfather of the present Queen.
He was born Count Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander of
Hohenstein in Esseg, Slavonia (present-day Osijek, Croatia), the
son of a morganatic marriage between Duke Alexander of Württemberg
and Countess Claudine Rhédey von…
Prince William of Gloucester died on this
day in 1972. He was born at Hadley Common, Hertfordshire, on 18
December 1941, the eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
(the fourth child of King George V and Queen Mary) and Princess
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. As a…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are
very much looking forward to visiting Cornwall and the Isles of
Scilly on 1 and 2 September, Kensington Palace have announced. The
trip to South West England will be marked by the
Cambridges’ first visit to projects in the Duchy…
Prince Edward is set to make a
special TV appearance today to mark the 60th anniversary of
the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The Earl of Wessex will be hosted by
the BBC’s Countryfile presenter Helen Skelton as he hikes
along the Pennine Way in the Peak District, where he will also
be joined by a group of young competitors looking to win in
this year’s expedition. Discussing the award…
