Our royal history is filled with major
moments and those attached to the monarchs and consorts whose names
are all too familiar take on a significance all of their own. Each
month, at Royal Central, we’re taking a look at the monarchical
milestones that pepper the past and as the year winds on, here is a
Calendar of Kings for February. To Crown a King February is rather
light on kingly birthdays…
The Queen has followed in her father’s
footsteps as she visited a building on the Sandringham estate,
seven decades after King George VI declared the original version
open. And her time at Wolferton Pumping Station in Norfolk came
just hours before the anniversary of…
On this week’s Royal Central podcast, the
team discuss the background to the decision by Belgium’s King
Albert II to acknowledge Delphine Boel as his natural daughter and
asks what legacy this controversy will leave. Join Brittani Barger,
Moniek Bloks and…
We all love a groom who cries as his
bride walks towards him, and when it’s a royal groom, it’s even
better. However, rewind a couple of centuries, and a weeping prince
at the altar was no laughing matter. For when George, Prince of
Wales and king in waiting wed Caroline of Brunswick on 8 April 1795
the tears of the groom were a public demonstration of his
unhappiness in a marriage…
He remains Britain’s longest ruling king
but the real character of the monarch whose reign ended exactly two
centuries ago remains shrouded by the long standing claim that he
was mad. George III, whose time on the throne encompassed some of
the biggest social changes…
The Week in Royal History: a scandalous mystery still up for debate
25th January 2020
The royal story of 2020 has had plenty of
drama so far but as the debate surrounding the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex simmers down, ever so slightly, figures from the regal past
are adding their own touch of turbulence to the news. Some of the
most dramatic stories in…
He spent his earliest years in her
company and now the Prince of Wales has paid his own tribute to the
paternal grandmother he described as ”inspirational”. Prince
Charles made his comments as he visited the grave of Princess
Alice, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh, during his time in the
Middle East Princess Alice is buried at the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem. The Prince of Wales…
Diamonds galore and bright red nails: this week's other royal news
21st January 2020
This week’s Royal Central podcast is all
about the stories you didn’t get a chance to hear while everyone,
and I do mean everyone, was concentrating on the decision of the
Duke and Duchess of Sussex to step back as senior royals. From a
royal who always…
The first month of every New Year brings
many inevitabilities with it – cold nights, lower than hoped for
bank balances and guilt trips when dry January turns out, like the
weather, to be slightly wetter than anticipated. But in recent
years it’s also brought a…
She’s already a royal record breaker many
times over but within the coming weeks, the Queen will see her
reign claim two more spots in the record books. Before the end of
February she will overtake a pair of famous male monarchs and
become the fourth longest reigning royal in history. As January
comes to a close, the reign of Elizabeth II will overtake that of
Franz Joseph II, Emperor of…
