Edward VI was born on 12th October 1537
as the son of the reigning King Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane
Seymour. Edward’s sisters Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth were
both fond of their little brother and visited him often. Edward was
even fond of his father’s last wife Catherine Parr and called her
his “most dear mother”. On 1 July 1543 Henry VIII signed the…
Remembrance Sunday service shortened so Queen and veterans spend less time standing
23rd October 2015
Buckingham Palace has announced that the
Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph will be shorter this year.
The ceremony will be changed slightly to limit the amount of time
that The Queen and the veterans who take part have to stand. Many
veterans, some now in their…
The Earl and Countess of Strathearn, as
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are known in Scotland, made their
first official visit to Dundee on Friday. As most will recall,
William and Catherine first met while students nearby at the
University of St Andrews. The majority of…
Saving the family farm: Prince Charles spends the day in Derbyshire on behalf of The Prince's Countryside Fund
23rd October 2015
Supporting farmers was the dominant theme
of The Prince of Wales’s visit to Derbyshire on Friday. Prince
Charles, a champion for the family farm heard first-hand accounts
from Buxton area farmers about the trials and tribulations they
face and how The Prince’s Countryside Fund, is rendering the help
the farmers and their families need. Charles founded The Prince’s
Countryside…
She was born at a time when England was
at the height of the Wars of the Roses and was the daughter of
George, Duke of Clarence. Much of Margaret Pole’s early life was
marred by tragedy including the death of her Uncle King Edward IV,
the disappearance of the Princes in…
Prince Harry will be in the United States
of America on October 28th for an event in support of the Invictus
Games Orlando 2016, which will take place between the 8th-12th May
2016 at the ESPN World Wide of Sports Complex in Orlando. Prince
Harry will be joined at the event…
China’s President Xi Jinping has bid a
formal farewell to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh at
Buckingham Palace before joining the Duke of York for a series of
visits. On Thursday morning, Mr Xi and the Duke Of York visited the
UK satellite communications company Inmarsat. Prince Andrew and
President XI also attended a conference of the Confucius Institute,
the Chinese equivalent of the…
Prince Harry attends service and meets families of bomb disposal experts killed in action
22nd October 2015
Prince Harry attended a service at St
Paul’s Cathedral on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) across the British Armed Forces.
Officially formed in October 1940, the initial Royal Engineers bomb
disposal unit performed a…
Royal Central's guide to Halloween at Britain's most haunted castles
21st October 2015
As we continue with our Halloween season,
its time for Royal Central’s ghoulish guide to Halloween at some of
this country’s most haunted castles. Muncaster Castle Muncaster
Castle in Cumbria is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a
mysterious White Lady and Tom…
Aberfan is a former coal mining village
in South Wales just 4 miles south of Merthyr Tydfil, and
unfortunately it became known for the Aberfan disaster that
happened on 21st October 1966. The disaster was a catastrophic
collapse of a colliery spoil tip and saw 40,000 cubic metres of
debris cover the village of Aberfan in just minutes. The classrooms
of Pantglas Junior School were immediately…
