Aiko, Princess Toshi, the daughter of Japanese Emperor Naruhito, will reach the age of maturity on her twentieth birthday on 1 December 2022. In the following days, she will take part in specific ceremonies and will start attending public engagements with her parents.
Aiko was born on 1 December 2001 at the Imperial Household Agency Hospital to the then-Crown Prince and Crown Princess.
Inside the Jubilee Exhibition: The Queen's most famous portrait?
22nd November 2021
To celebrate the Platinum Jubilee in 2022, the Royal Collection Trust will be staging three different exhibitions in 2022. The exhibition at Buckingham Palace will focus on her Accession, the Windsor Castle exhibition on her Coronation, and the Palace of Holyroodhouse…
Catherine the Great is back on screen: a new season of The Great premieres
22nd November 2021
The second season of The Great from Hulu has premiered in the United States and Canada and will be premiering in the United Kingdom on 5 December. The popular period drama is a fictional take on Catherine the Great’s early reign.
The Great was written by Tony…
Inside the Jubilee exhibitions: Coronation on show at Windsor Castle
18th November 2021
The Royal Collection Trust will be staging three different exhibitions in 2022 to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The exhibition at Windsor Castle is set to explore The Queen’s Coronation in 1953.
Platinum Jubilee: The Queen’s Coronation will be on at Windsor Castle from Thursday 7 July to Monday 26 September…
The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara: an iconic royal jewel
17th November 2021
The Queen has numerous tiaras to choose from for formal occasions. However, there are a few that she turns to again and again. The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara is one of those pieces, and even features in the first portraits taken during her reign.
Queen…
The Bavarian Royal Family had several notable members, including King Ludwig II (The Swan King) and Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi. However, the Kingdom of Bavaria had a relatively short lifespan.
In 1805, Elector Maximilian IV Joseph elevated Bavaria from…
The unveiling of the Cenotaph: The day George V led a nation still recovering from war
11th November 2021
On 11 November 1920, King George V led Britain in two minutes of silence to remember those lost in the First World War and to mark the exact moment when Armistices brought the Great War to a close. The king also unveiled the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
In 1919, the government planned Peace Day for 19 July- a day to mark the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and to celebrate the work of…
Queen Margrethe's poised jewel pick for state visit to Germany
11th November 2021
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is currently in Germany on a state visit; her son, Crown Prince Frederik, is accompanying her.
On Wednesday, 10 November, they attended a state dinner at Bellvue Palace in Berlin. The Danish Royal Family has one of the most impressive…
Jewels belonging to the doomed French queen, Marie Antoinette, have gone up for auction in Geneva and sold for several times more than the original estimate.
Marie Antoinette sent two diamond bracelets to a former Austrian ambassador in Brussels for safekeeping and…
The Duchess of Cambridge opens two new galleries at the Imperial War Museum
11th November 2021
On Wednesday, 10 November, ahead of Remembrance Sunday, The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Imperial War Museum in London. She was at the museum to open two different galleries, one which included some of her own photographs.
In an Alexander McQueen blouse that she first wore in 2012, a Catherine Walker coat and pair of trousers, and a poppy on her lapel, Catherine visited the museum to open…
