Today, images of the Royal Family are everywhere. As technology advances, we can instantly retrieve images of any member of the Royal Family, both in private and outperforming their royal duties. Now, because of this, the members of the royal family can be recognized instantly. However, this was not always the case, many of the royal portraits released by monarchs of the past were not very…
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart was the second child of King James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Born on 28th June 1692 at St-Germain-en-Laye, Louisa was referred to as The Princess Royal by her father’s supporters, the Jacobites.
James Francis Edward and Louisa…
Christmas is just that time of the year where it is perfectly acceptable to eat and drink as much as you see fit. That theory even stood during the reign of the House of Stuart, probably in a bigger sense than it does today.
King Charles I and his family spent several months…
Duchess of Cornwall to present medals to Navy personnel who helped with the Ebola crisis
28th August 2015
The Duchess of Cornwall begins the new royal season on 10 September honouring Navy personnel who helped with the Ebola crisis last year.
The Duchess of Cornwall is pictured here in 2012 at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth. There she presented operational medals to Royal Navy medics upon their return operations in Afghanistan.
Camilla, Commodore-in-Chief of the Royal Naval Medical Services will present…
Looking at some of the many photographs taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria would lose several grandsons…
The King’s Curse is quite simply an epic read and Philippa Gregory, author of the acclaimed The Cousins War series, tells the story of deposed royal, Margaret Pole, quite spectacularly.
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury.
Margaret Pole is the daughter of George, Duke…
On the early morning of the 22nd August 1485, Richard III and Henry Tudor finally faced each other in battle near the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. The short battle, lasting only a couple of hours, ended in the death of Richard III and the ascendancy of the newly proclaimed Henry VII and his new House of Tudor. Bosworth has become etched in the public memory as the definitive…
A wave of applause for The Queen at a river based tribute marking her historic reign
26th August 2015
People in London are being encouraged to line the banks of the Thames on September 9th 2015 to cheer The Queen as she becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history. Organisers of a special flotilla of boats which will take to the river to mark the occasion are…
Is the mystery of the 'Princes in the Tower' set to be uncovered?
25th August 2015
Its one of the biggest mysteries in English history and in fact world history, who was responsible for the death of the two Princes in the Tower? While it seemed to many that the answer to this question would never be known, one Philippa Langley is preparing to crack the…
As commemorations continue around the world to mark the centenaries of many battles of World War One, Prince Charles has paid his own tributes to soldiers from a remote part of Scotland. Charles laid a wreath at a new memorial cairn built to honour soldiers from the Moray farming community and several of the neighbouring parishes who died in the conflict.
The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to…
