British RoyalsPalaces & Buildings

Spending on Buckingham Palace tops £100 million

In the past fiscal year, the Royal Family spent more than £100 million on significant repair work on Buckingham Palace, drawing large amounts of funding.  The Royal Family released its annual spending report for the last financial year, released on Thursday, 30 June. The Sovereign Grant report details how the Royal Family has spent their funds.  During the last financial year, the Royal…
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Ingeborg, the princess who just provided a future queen with her first tiara

The future Queen of Norway, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, debuted a new-to-her tiara at her eighteenth birthday celebrations. The pearl and diamond tiara belonged to Ingrid Alexandra’s great-great-grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden. Born Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise in 1878, she was the daughter of King Frederick VII and Louise of Denmark. She was a first cousin…
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Piano given by Princess Margaret to Sir Roderick Llewellyn goes on auction

A gift from The Queen’s late sister is going up for auction at the end of June. Princess Margaret, The Queen’s younger sister, gave her then-boyfriend, Roderick Llewellyn, a piano as a gift during their relationship in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The piano was made in the 1890s by Mitchell & Briggs, who held a Royal Warrant. The Princess’s relationship with…
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Celebrating Communities in Northern Ireland as the Wessexes mark the Jubilee

Several senior members of the Royal Family have been travelling on Friday and Saturday of this Platinum Jubilee weekend to represent The Queen in all Four Nations. The Earl and Countess of Wessex headed to Northern Ireland to take part in community events and Jubilee celebrations. The Earl and Countess went to Belfast on Saturday morning to take part in a 1950s-themed street party on…
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