Prince Harry will begin his secondment to the Australian Defence Force on 6th April, Kensington Palace announced today, as they confirmed new details about the Prince’s attachment to the Australian forces ahead of his leaving the British Armed Forces in June after ten years’ service.
During his time with the ADF, he will come to understand the operating environment within Australia and…
A fantastic new project is being launched at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. With the enormous popularity of Queen Victoria’s Journals available online, the extensive collection of King George III’s papers will soon be available for the world to view on the web as…
The Duchess of Cornwall will soon have a pub in Poundbury named after her.
The collaborative development of the Duchy of Cornwall and Hall and Woodhouse will see a public house located on Queen Mother Square in Poundbury.
Located in Dorchester in the county of Dorset…
The Queen’s proclamation – approved in a meeting of the Privy Council earlier today – was read out in London and Edinburgh today, setting out the date when Parliament will formally return following the General Election on 7th May.
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Read at both the Royal Exchange in the City of London and Mercat…
The Duke of Cambridge started his first day at Bond Air Services as he begins his training to be a pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Prince William previously piloted Sea King helicopters for the RAF in Anglesey.
During the next months, he will undergo specific…
The Australia Magna Carta Embroidery - commemorating the spread of law and order throughout the world
30th March 2015
The Australia panel of the twelve panel Magna Carta embroidery is now completed. The latest delicately embroidered, highly detailed piece, tells the story of how the abiding principles of the Magna Carta influenced and remained the basis of common law in many countries…
The Queen made a sudden return to Buckingham Palace on Monday morning to receive the Prime Minister David Cameron after the dissolution of Parliament. The Queen, who is residing at Windsor Castle for the next month for Easter Court, received Mr Cameron shortly after 11 o’clock as he travelled the short journey to the Palace from Downing Street by car.
Thanks to the Fixed Term Parliaments…
Elizabeth Tower fell silent on Saturday night. A team from the Palace of Westminster Clockmakers climbed the tower to physically move the clock’s hands from Greenwich Mean Time to British Summer Time.
Besides the clock at the Elizabeth Tower, the team of clockmakers…
Stories of the Stuarts: Lucy Walter, mistress of King Charles II
29th March 2015
In this new ongoing series of articles, we will be delving in to the world of the House of Stuart, a royal dynasty who first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland in the late 14th century before eventually inheriting the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in the early 17th…
Prince Charles paid a visit to his local small community hospital in Tetbury Friday in his capacity as Patron of Friends of Tetbury Hospital, which raises funds to maintain it.
The Prince opened the recently upgraded X-Ray unit. The £108,600 needed for the upgrade took Friends of Tetbury hospital around 12 months to raise.
The hospital receives money from the NHS for the patients, but it seeks…
