Part of the job of being royal is
dressing the part and Queen Elizabeth II has never disappointed
when it comes to choosing the right thing to wear. Whether she is
entertaining guests at a glittering state banquet or performing a
royal walkabout, Her Majesty The Queen always looks very elegant
and beautiful. Much of this is due to her lovely dresses that never
fail to entrance and enchant but…
This autumn, the heart of a Queen and
British-born princess will be laid to rest in Romania. Born in Kent
as Princess Marie of Edinburgh, the second child and eldest
daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess
Marie Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander…
It hasn’t even started yet and already
Great British Bake Off fever has returned to the UK with just about
everyone getting ready to go crazy again for meringues, macaroons
and marble cake. But while the twelve new stars of the
BBC One show will no doubt win legions of…
Though her reign is disputed by many,
Lady Jane Grey is undoubtedly this country’s shortest reigning
monarch. Jane is popularly known as the ‘Nine Days Queen’ because
of her curtailed reign. It is often a view of many she was a victim
of her cousin, Edward VI’s, plans to keep his Catholic half-sister
Mary off the English throne. The ‘Nine Days Queen’ Lady Jane Grey.
But just what…
Princess Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria was
the third daughter and youngest surviving child of the Prince and
Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of
Denmark, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of
Hesse-Kassel. Princess Maud was…
It might be August and the height of
summer but already minds are turning to bringing in the harvest and
the apple haul this year will be rather varied – thanks to The
Prince of Wales. Charles has been growing a wide range of rare and
historic apples to help try and…
Every year, the finances of both The
Queen and the Prince of Wales are released, in great detail, to the
media and the public. While figures show that the Prince of Wales
is a net contributor to public funds, the funding arrangements of
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – the next most senior members of
the Royal Family – are a lot less clear cut. In fact, the exact
expenditure of the…
New photo exhibition shows Queen, Camilla and William in remarkable mirrored portraits
1st August 2015
A new exhibition which begins this
month at Eleven in London titled The Queen’s People
is set to show some of Britain’s high office holders in their
traditional outfits, using a photographic technique inspired by
17th century portrait painting. The collection of…
The stories of Queen Victoria's granddaughters: Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
1st August 2015
‘A supremely honest woman, full of
courage’. Those words, written about Queen Victoria’s second
granddaughter, perhaps sum her up better than anything
else.Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine lived through many tragedies
but never gave up. Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine…
Oak Apple Day was a formal public holiday
celebrated in England on the 29th May in recognition of the
Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 following ‘The Commonwealth’ of
England and rule of Oliver Cromwell from 1649. It is so named ‘Oak
Apple Day’ because of King Charles II’s escape from the Roundheads
following the Battle of Worcester in 1651, in which he hid in an
oak tree in the…
