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 including Prince Albert Victor, Duke
of Clarence as well as Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia,
the sons of her eldest…
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…
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 asking residents and visitors
alike to stand along the Thames and clap The Queen into
history on this very special day. The…
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…
Princess Helena Victoria, known as Thora,
loved tennis and golf We’re used to seeing the Duke of Kent at
Wimbledon and in recent years, the Duchess of Cambridge has become
a regular supporter of the tennis played at the All England Club.
But rewind nine decades and another royal was a familiar face
there. A princess known to her family as Thora regularly cropped up
on the Pathe newsreels of the…
For a princess who claimed a bit of a
royal first at the baptismal font, it’s perhaps not surprising that
Patricia of Connaught – known for most of her adult life as Lady
Patricia Ramsey – ended up changing plenty of regal rules on her
way. The little…
Illustrated London News have announced
the publication of a special limited edition book set in
recognition of Her Majesty The Queen becoming Britain’s longest
reigning monarch on September 9th. As Royal Central previously
reported, The Queen will overtake her…
King Richard III brings extra visitors to Leicester on the first Bosworth anniversary since his reinterment
21st August 2015
For years, August 22nd was the one time
in the year when the focus really fell on Richard III. The last
king of the House of York lost his throne and his life on that date
when he lost the Battle of Bosworth to the first Tudor monarch,
Henry VII. And for the long time when Richard’s burial place was
lost, the end of his story was remembered on the anniversary of
Bosworth. But all that has…
