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 British…
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 now come…
Under the former law, dating back to
1701, women were succeeded by their brothers in succession even if
they were the first born. The act also allows the future monarch to
marry a Roman Catholic. The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 came
into force after being approved by…
Star of Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch,
will read a poem at the re-internment of the last Plantagenet King,
Richard III, on Thursday. The re-internment service will take
place at Leicester Cathedral three years after his remains were
discovered at the site of an…
Duke of York sings Happy Birthday to daughter Eugenie virtually during Pitch@Palace awards
24th March 2015
The Pitch@Palace event is an initiative
by the Duke of York to encourage entrepreneurship in the United
Kingdom. In the past, the initiative has been described as a cross
between the television shows Shark’s Tank, Dragon’s Den, and the X
Factor. This week it can be compared to a new television
program-American Idol-the try-outs. The Pitch@Palace awards event
coincided with the celebration of…
