Queen Elizabeth has undertaken 94
official State Visits during her reign, plus two State Visits in
her capacity as Queen of Canada (she visited the United States
twice in the ‘50s). A State Visit is when a foreign head of state
is invited to visit a country by that country’s head of state.
State Visits differ from Official Visits, as an Official Visit is
when high-ranking government officials…
Ivanka Trump congratulates Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and Twitter is not happy
20th December 2017
Ivanka Trump probably wasn’t anticipating
the backlash she received after congratulating Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle on their engagement, but Twitter was not having it.
Trump, who congratulated the couple nearly three weeks after their
27 November engagement – instead…
Prince Harry takes over from Prince Philip as Captain General of the Royal Marines
20th December 2017
Prince Harry has taken over as Captain
General of the Royal Marines as his grandfather Prince Philip
relinquishes his post. In his last official duty before retirement,
Prince Philip took the salute from a group of fundraising Royal
Marines outside Buckingham Palace in…
Prince Harry will interview former US
President Barack Obama when he guest edits Today for BBC Radio 4 on
27 December, and a sneak preview of their warm up was released
yesterday. “Do I have to put on a British accent?” Obama asks him.
Prince Harry replies in the negative, but tells him that “If you
start using long pauses between answers, you’re going to get ‘the
face.’” The Prince…
So what do Meghan Markle and fidget
spinners have in common? If you guessed that they are both two of
the most searched terms on Google UK in 2017, you are correct. In
fact, Meghan Markle, who will wed Prince Harry on 19 May 2018 at
Windsor Castle, was the top search in the…
Meghan Markle is set to join the Royal
Family for their traditional pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham
Palace, according to reports. This will be her first official visit
to the Queen’s official residence. A source told the Express that
“If Meghan is in the country…
Kensington Palace was, in its original
form, a Jacobean mansion built in 1605, and bought by William and
Mary in 1689. They directed Sir Christopher Wren to renovate and
expand the building, and Wren added a three-storey pavilion at each
corner to create more space for the Royal Family. The Palace was,
until the time of George II, the favoured house of the monarch. In
its illustrious history, it…
Add security training to the laundry list
of things Meghan Markle will do in the run-up to her wedding day.
Meghan Markle is reportedly set to train with the SAS – Special Air
Service – a special forces unit of the British Army that deals in
“covert reconnaissance…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Wedding to Boost UK Economy by £500 million
3rd December 2017
Royal wedding fever is estimated to add
£500 million to the British economy, experts say. According to
Consultants Brand Finance, many factors related to Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle’s spring wedding will contribute to the British
economy, including tourism, royal…
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands
revealed the results of a commission’s investigation into whether
the Dutch Royal Family received a secret tax deal with the
government, confirming that there is no deal. “The conclusion of
the historical investigation is that nothing in the studied
documents showed that there was such a specific compensation
scheme, or so-called ‘secret tax deal,”…
