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, she couldn’t pronounce her own given
name of Elizabeth properly and instead called herself ‘Lilibet’.
The…
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…
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 marry his bride and the crisis his
Abdication had produced, less than six months earlier, had shaken
the House of Windsor 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…
Why are William and Catherine known as the Earl and Countess of Strathearn in Scotland?
27th May 2021
As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
enjoy a bumper visit to Scotland, many of our readers have been
asking why we have been referring to the couple as the Earl and
Countess of Strathearn in recent days. When Prince William was made
Duke of Cambridge on the day he married Catherine Middleton, he was
also bestowed the title of Earl of Strathearn. As such, not only is
Catherine the Duchess of…
In recent years, it’s become something of
a go to wedding reception venue for a whole new generation of
royals. Frogmore House, settled in the rolling green of the Windsor
Castle estate, has seen celebrations following the marriages of
several of the Queen’s…
Since the arrival of the children of the
Earl and Countess of Wessex, questions about their titles have
arisen. And those debates could continue after their mother
confirmed that how they are styled is still open to changes. When
Edward and Sophie married, it was…
The Princess of Asturias will be
confirmed into the Catholic Church in a simple ceremony alongside
her classmates. Leonor’s confirmation will take place on May 28th
2021 at the same church where she made her First Communion, at Our
Lady of Aravaca in Madrid. The ceremony, a year earlier than
expected, will be scaled back for all those taking part, because of
restrictions imposed by the…
