Crown Princess Victoria has paid a poignant visit to the grave of a royal relative to lead tributes to a missing Queen of Sweden. On the anniversary of the death of Crown Princess Margaret, her descendants remembered her with an arrangement of the flower she shared her name with and left daisies on her grave.
Margaret died on May 1st 1920, plunging her family and her country into grief. She had…
So what does a straight talking, hard working, wear the same suit for forty years princess keep in her parlour? Now, we know. As Princess Anne became the latest royal to reveal her interior decor choices through the wonder of video calls, we were all given a reminder that…
The Princess Royal has officially opened a brand new medical facility which can provide over 1,000 beds for Scottish patients being treated for coronavirus. Princess Anne inaugurated the new hospital in Glasgow in an online ceremony.
Speaking during the official opening…
The fundraising of Captain Tom Moore has been recognised on his 100th birthday with a special military move. Captain Moore has been made an Honorary Colonel by the Queen to celebrate his centenary.
The man who has captured imaginations around the world has been made the first Honorary Colonel of the Army Foundation College as he turns 100. The college is based in Harrogate in Yorkshire, the…
The Countess of Wessex has helped pack food parcels as she continues to support volunteers looking after the most vulnerable members of society during the coronavirus pandemic. She put together emergency supplies on a visit to a foodbank earlier this week.
Sophie spent…
They are filled with tradition and part of history and there’s no doubt about it, they’re popular. A royal wedding has a power to fascinate that continues, however much time and society change around it. In the first of a special summer series, Lydia Starbuck…
It’s been a seat of royal tradition for centuries, a place of coronations, kings and queens. But for much of its ancient history, Westminster Abbey was far from a go to place for royal weddings. From the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 20th, no regal marriages took place there at all. But the House of Windsor changed all that. For the last century, it’s been a…
The Prince of Wales will follow in the footsteps of his grandfather on the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Prince Charles will read extracts from the diaries of King George VI in a specially recorded programme to mark the event.
Charles’ readings will form part of a day…
The year 1923 saw the marital calendar was packed with princely nuptials. The springtime wedding of Albert, Duke of York had brought huge crowds to London, and there was an impressive turnout in the city that autumn when Lady Louise Mountbatten wed Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf…
Princess Alexandra has thanked staff working at a hospital treating patients with Covid-19. The Queen’s cousin praised their efforts in a message sent to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex as it marked its 55th anniversary.
The hospital, in Harlow, was named in honour of the princess and she officially opened it back in 1965. On the exact anniversary of the ceremony, Alexandra sent…
