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 well.
The Queen will attend the event announcing the project to digitise King George III’s private papers.
In…
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.
Read at both the Royal…
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 training before he begins piloting ambulance missions during the summer.
The training will involve time in a simulator, aircraft…
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…
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 still had 2,000 clocks dotted around the Palace of Westminster and other parliamentary buildings to change in readiness for…
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…
Today, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that – following the much-awaited enacting of the necessary laws in Australia – the changes to royal succession have finally been implemented. It’s taken four years since the Perth Agreement in 2011 to make these changes, but what actually are they, and who do they affect?
There are three main components to the act which have…
