Royal News

Kensington Palace issues happy update on Kate's appearance at French State Banquet

The Princess of Wales is slated to attend her first state banquet in over a year when she joins King Charles and Queen Camilla in honouring French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron this evening at Windsor Castle. Kate hasn’t attended a state banquet since November 2023 due to her cancer diagnosis and subsequent preventative chemotherapy treatments. She missed the…
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Spain

Princess Leonor returns to Spain as future queen starts the last leg of naval training

The future queen of Spain arrived back in the country following three weeks of training aboard the Blas de Lezo frigate. Princess Leonor now begins the final leg of naval training with her shipmates. Having disembarked from Spanish waters in mid-January for six months of practical training aboard the naval training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano, Princess Leonor sailed the seas and stopped at…
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Royal News

A sentimental tiara beloved by Queen Elizabeth II to form the heart of her national memorial

The Cabinet Office has announced that Foster + Partners, a sustainable architecture and design firm, had won the contract to design the Queen Elizabeth II national memorial in St James’s Park. In a statement, the Government shared that Foster + Partners’ design concept celebrates the late queen’s life and her ability to balance “tradition and modernity, public duty and private faith…
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Features

The Duchess of Edinburgh wears a poignant shade of green: Edinburgh Green

While most of the royal women wore shades of cream and green, the Duchess of Edinburgh sported a particularly poignant shade of green at Saturday’s Trooping the Colour: Edinburgh Green. The Duchess of Edinburgh’s particular colour choice has dual meaning because it can be seen as a tribute to the duchy her husband, Prince Edward, was granted on his 59th birthday in 2023; but it’s also…
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