The smile is familiar, as is the stance.
In what would prove to be his final portrait, Prince Philip is
caught for eternity staring at his viewer as he prepares to walk
one of the many corridors of Windsor Castle, seat of the royal
dynasty which became his life. And at the end of that path he is
about to walk is the Tapestry Room where his mother was born.
Philip was going home. That poignant…
It’s a fact universally acknowledged that
a royal dukedom rarely comes without a secondary title. The Queen
normally hands out several subsidiary titles to those she creates a
duke and Prince Harry was no exception. When his grandmother made
him Duke of Sussex on his…
The Queen has held her first face to face
meeting with the Prime Minister for over fifteen months as she
welcomed him to Buckingham Palace for their traditional weekly
audience. Her Majesty and Boris Johnson have held their regular
meetings by phone since March 2020 as…
A dream ending for Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Christian as they show support for football side
22nd June 2021
They’d called it a dream and Denmark’s
next two monarchs saw their wishes become reality as they cheered
on their country’s football side in a crucial Euros 2020 game.
Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Christian were on hand to see
Denmark go through to the knockout stages of the competition after
a hard fought campaign and the hospitalisation of one of the
nation’s star…
A picture is worth a thousand words and
sometimes captures the essence of a moment more than the most
perfect prose. The royal story is filled with images that tell a
tale all of their own.In this occasional series, Royal Central
looks at some of the best known…
The Duchess of Cornwall has shared a
special photo from her wedding day to highlight the special role
fathers play. As Father’s Day is celebrated across the UK, Camilla
added an image of her arm in arm with her dad, Bruce Shand, on the
afternoon she married the Prince…
It was a quiet country affair, far
removed from the pomp and ceremony we’ve come to expect from royal
weddings. The setting was an English parish church, the regal guest
list only filled a couple of pews, and the bride walked in several
minutes late carrying her own train to protect it from the rain.
The marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, on 8 July 1972,
was a royal wedding with a…
When Sophie Rhys Jones married Prince
Edward on June 19th 1999 at St. George’s Chapel, she carried a
bouquet with more than a hint of the past about it. The couple who
starred in the last big Windsor wedding of the 20th century had
gone for something of a medieval…
If ever a royal wedding dress summed up
its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie Rhys-Jones for her
marriage to Prince Edward on 19 June 1999 at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Subtle, elegant and classic, this was the final Windsor
bridal dress of the 20thcentury…
June is royal wedding month in Sweden and
one particular date is filled with regal marriage memories. King
Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia wed on June 19th 1976 and their
eldest child and heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, chose
the same date for her marriage to Daniel Westling in 2010. Mother
and daughter wore the same tiara for their marriages and selected
cream and green blooms for…
