British television programme Countryfile
aired a special royal edition last night which focused on The
Queen’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk, exploring how it is run and
letting slip secrets about the monarch’s time there as a child. It
is one of three special episodes going behind the scenes of three
different estates of the monarch – Windsor, Sandringham and
Balmoral – and showcasing her…
Royal well-wishers who sent birthday greetings to Princess Charlotte receive thank-you cards
6th June 2018
When Princess Charlotte celebrated her
third birthday on 2 May, she received messages of congratulations
and good wishes from around the world. The Duke and Duchess have
shown their gratitude to these royal well-wishers with a beautiful
photo card of the young princess. The…
In The World As It Is: A Memoir of the
Obama White House Barack Obama’s former national security advisor,
Ben Rhodes, reveals that the then-President and First Lady of the
United States were in awe when they met The Queen on an official
visit to the UK in May 2011. Rhodes…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the
Netherlands arrived in Mumbai yesterday to continue her official
visit to India as United Nations Secretary General’s Special
Advocate for Inclusive Finance and Development. The four-day trip
began on Monday in New Delhi where the Queen met with UN
representatives and had a sit down with Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. The PM’s office released a…
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prince Carl
Philip of Sweden were in Stockholm yesterday to attend the National
Veteran’s Memorial at Kungl Djurgården and mark the first time
Veterans Day was also recognised as a general flag day. Veterans
Day on 29 May was instituted as a…
This week His Majesty King Don Felipe of
Spain participated in the opening ceremonies of the 2018
International Meeting of University Rectors at the University of
Salamanca. Now in its fourth edition, the two-day event began
yesterday with more than 700 rectors, academic…
Singer Katy Perry has come out with
criticism of the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding gown telling
entertainment news program Entertainment Tonight “I would have done
one more fitting” adding, as if to temper her comment, “I’m never
not going to tell the truth! One more fitting, but I love you.”
When asked if she thought the Duchess of Cambridge – who wore a
Sarah Burton for Alexander…
Yesterday Their Majesties King
Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Princess
Mabel of the Netherlands attended a Red Ribbon Concert at AFAS Live
in Amsterdam. The concert was put on to raise international
interest and attention for AIDS research and…
This week Her Royal Highness Crown
Princess Katherine of Serbia welcomed members of the International
Women’s Club to the Royal Palace at Dedinje, in Serbia’s capital
city of Belgrade. Club President Mrs Ann Pesic and a number of club
members joined the Crown Princess in…
The Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg
marked the closing of the Octave on Sunday with a series of
traditional events in Luxembourg City including a morning
Pontifical Mass at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Luxembourg.
Following the mass, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess spoke with
members of the clergy and received flowers as they departed. The
morning religious ceremony was followed by a gathering…
