It’s proving to be a very different
Christmas in more ways than one for many and the Queen is no
exception. This year, the contents of her Christmas Day speech will
be kept secret until the moment it is broadcast. Her Majesty
usually pre-records her Christmas Day message and in previous
years, snippets of the speech have been shared ahead of December
25th. However, this has led to…
Will King Felipe use his Christmas speech to publicly distance himself from his father?
19th December 2020
A Spanish government minister has
indicated that King Felipe will use his Christmas message to
distance himself from his father, Juan Carlos I, whose financial
affairs have seen his royal family plunged into crisis over the
past year. Exactly a week before Felipe is set…
The Duke of Edinburgh makes rare public statement to thank teachers
19th December 2020
As the school term came to an end for
most pupils in the UK, the Duke of Edinburgh issued a message of
support for teaching staff. The Duke is patron of the Chartered
College of Teaching. Prince Philip made his rare public statement
to show his gratitude to all those in…
Sweden's king says his country's coronavirus strategy has failed
18th December 2020
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has said
his nation’s approach to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic has
failed. Speaking in a TV programme, the Swedish monarch said ”I
think we have failed. We have a large number who have died and that
is terrible.” Sweden has taken one of the most notably relaxed
approaches in the world to dealing with the pandemic. The country
has never…
The marriage of King Baudouin of the
Belgians and Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, on December 15th 1960, gave
a country a new queen and began a royal partnership that would
become one of the most successful in modern regal history. The
discreet monarch and his equally dignified…
Princess Alexandra has told veterans that
the past year, despite its many challenges, has shown just how much
communities can achieve together. The Queen’s cousin was speaking
as part of a special recorded ‘Starlight’ service, organised by the
Royal Star…
Sweden will welcome a new royal baby in
the spring of 2021 and the confirmation that Princess Sofia and her
husband, Prince Carl Philip, will become parents again within
months has raised an intriguing question. What title will this
newest baby Bernadotte hold? For this eighth grandchild for Carl
XVI Gustaf and Silvia will be the first to be born since the King
of Sweden decided to remove the…
Spain’s former monarch, Juan Carlos I,
has settled a bill for back taxes as reports continue that he is
planning a return to the country he ruled for almost forty years.
In a statement released on December 9th 2020, the king’s lawyers
said he had paid 678,000…
December usually means a great big dollop
of diamonds coming at us from Sweden as the Royal Family oversee
the Nobel Prizes and the glittering ceremonies that go with them.
Of course, all of that is off because of the coronavirus pandemic
meaning we’ll have to make do…
Rare coins bearing the initials of three
of Henry VIII’s wives have been dug up. The gold pieces were
discovered by a family in the New Forest area of England who found
them while weeding their garden during the first lockdown. They are
part of a stash of forty coins from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Other items in the hoard include money from the reign of Henry
VIII’s grandfather…
