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 celebrating Christmas Much of
the food that the Stuarts ate at Christmas time, we still eat
today. Although their most…
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…
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 of Clarence, who in turn was the
brother of two Plantagenet Kings, Edward IV and Richard III. She is
also the cousin of Queen…
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…
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 greatest of all cold cases. The
Princes in the Tower. Philippa Langley is best known as a historian
and screenwriter who…
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…
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 girl who was born in Buckingham Palace on
March 17th 1886 grew up to be one of the most eligible women in
Europe, and when she did finally…
