It’s one of the oldest churches in
Britain the seat of one of England’s most important clerics yet the
famous York Minster is a rare venue for royal weddings. Just two
major regal marriages have taken place at this ancient church in
almost 1,000 years. The most recent took place sixty years ago. On
June 8th 1961, the Duke of Kent married Katharine Worsley there in
front of royalty…
It was a royal wedding that made history
and brought the House of Windsor one of its most popular ever
members. In June 1961, the Duke of Kent married Katharine Worsley.
The new Duchess of Kent would go on to be an instant hit and,
alongside her husband, spend decades…
The Princess Royal has marked a special
military milestone and celebrated volunteers as she added more face
to face engagements to her diary as summer got under way. Princess
Anne was in Dorset on the first day of June 2021 for a visit to the
13th Signal Regiment at their…
The Earl of Wessex has described the
prospect of becoming Duke of Edinburgh one day as ”bittersweet”. In
his first ever joint interview with the Countess of Wessex, given
to Camilla Tominey at the Daily Telegraph, Prince Edward underlined
that he isn’t in line to inherit the title yet, saying ”it’s a very
bittersweet role to take on because the only way the title…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named
their newborn daughter in honour of her great grandmother, The
Queen. And Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor’s unusual first name has
rather regal origins. The name Lilibet is actually the creation of
The Queen. As a young child…
The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to
the thousands of soldiers who lost their lives on D-Day in a
special message, describing the new official memorial to them as
”long overdue”. On the 77th anniversary of the D-Day Landings,
Prince Charles spoke by video…
It was a royal wedding with a recycled
gown worn by a woman who gave up her royal status for love. When
Princess Desiree of Sweden got married, she left her HRH status at
the altar to be with the man she loved. Royal Wedding Rewind heads
back to June 1964 for the wedding of Desiree and Baron Niclas
Silfvershiold. The princess was the second of the four sisters of
Carl Gustaf of Sweden to marry…
It was the wedding that changed the Royal
Family forever. The marriage of Edward, Duke of Windsor to Wallis
Simpson on 3 June 1937 was the final act of a dramatic series of
events that had reverberated around the world. For, of course, the
groom had given up his throne to…
A herd of elephants is about to take over
the Royal Parks of London but this unusual display already has
regal backing. The life size sculptures of Asian elephants are part
of a project overseen by charity, the Elephant Family, which counts
the Prince of Wales and the…
To spend an afternoon among queens and
kings is a rare thing but having emerged from the new exhibition on
royal power at the National Maritime Museum, that’s pretty much how
I felt. ‘Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits’ is a journey
through five hundred years of regal images that brings centuries of
history alive in a very modern way. The focus of this new display…
