The Duchess of Cambridge has visited the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London to see a new exhibition with
royal ties. Catherine visited the V&A on Thursday morning to
see Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, which recently
opened. The exhibition includes over 200 pieces, including three
Imperial Easter eggs that have never been seen in the UK before.
The Moscow Kremlin Egg, which…
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…
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…
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 McNamara, an Australian
playwright and author, who also wrote the screenplay for the 2018
film The Favourite. The Favourite featured…
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…
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 an electorate to a
kingdom; he served as King of Bavaria from 1 January to 1 August
1806 when Bavaria seceded from the Holy…
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…
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 is thought to have even
wrapped the bracelets in cotton cloths and packed them in a wooden
box to keep them…
