A long-serving Derbyshire police
officer’s family have revealed some fascinating anecdotes about his
service in the force, including the day that Queen Elizabeth The
Queen Mother visited the county and ended up going missing. Ian
Parker served in the police force for more than three decades and
shortly after the 88-year-old recently passed away, details of his
encounter with The Queen Mother…
Most British monarchs have something that
their reign is remembered for more than anything else, even if they
actually had little to do with it beyond offering their support.
Think of Queen Victoria and the Industrial Revolution, or George VI
and the Second World War. But…
The Queen’s biggest mistake of the last decade was allowing Charles & Andrew to oust Lord Geidt from the Royal Household
10th March 2021
For as long as there has been a monarchy,
there has been turbulence with the Royal Household having to deal
with a variety of crises that land at their door. The most pressing
issue for The Queen, and indeed the entire institution, is the Duke
& Duchess of Sussex and the…
Oprah Winfrey’s highly anticipated
interview is set to restart discussion about Archie Harrison
Mountbatten-Windsor’s royal status. While there was a lot of pomp
and ceremony around the birth of Archie’s older cousins – Prince
George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis – there was also a lot
less confusion. It was made clear before birth that they would all
be styled His/Her…
The Royal Family has turned into the world’s worst soap opera – it is an embarrassment to the UK and Commonwealth
4th March 2021
If you turn on the news, you might be
mistaken into thinking you are accidentally watching an episode of
EastEnders when the latest report about The Royal Family makes it
to air. No, Nicholas Witchell is not talking about the latest
exploits of the residents of Albert…
Much has been made of the Queen allegedly
blocking a law from being passed in the 1970s, claims which
Buckingham Palace says are “simply untrue”. According to documents
seen by The Guardian, The Queen’s personal lawyers successfully
persuaded ministers to change…
Prince Harry is best known as the Duke of
Sussex – a title granted to him by The Queen in May 2018 upon his
marriage to Meghan Markle. A lesser known title also bestowed upon
him was Baron Kilkeel – a subsidiary peerage which the prince can
use when he visits Northern Ireland. However, when it was announced
that Harry would become the Baron Kilkeel, it caused controversy on
the…
REVEALED: Why Buckingham Palace isn’t The Queen’s official residence
27th January 2021
Buckingham Palace is the most iconic
symbol of the British Monarchy, but far from popular opinion, this
200-year-old building isn’t actually The Queen’s official
residence, and this is why… Her Majesty’s official residence is, in
fact, a few hundred yards down the…
The tragedy of the last Stuart Monarch – Queen Anne’s 18 pregnancies
3rd December 2020
Queen Anne quite frankly had a tremendous
reign becoming the first Monarch of a united single sovereign
state, known as Great Britain in 1707 as well as showing her worth
as a Queen Regnant in a male dominated society. Though tragedy was
never far away from the last of the…
While King Henry VIII lived, his greatest
fear was dying without a male heir to the throne. As it turns out,
he needn’t have worried, for when he died in 1547, King Henry was
succeeded by his son Edward VI. But the new King Edward was very
frail and sickly boy of nine, and in just six short years he
succumbed to his illness, bringing his reign to an end and leaving
the throne unoccupied once…
