On this week’s Royal Central Podcast, the
team look ahead to some of the big events set to make the royal
news in December. Court cases and Christmas cards all feature as
Brittani Barger, Moniek Bloks and Lydia Starbuck as what the last
month of the year will bring for royal families around the…
Queen Margrethe takes charge of Denmark's royal Christmas countdown
2nd December 2019
It’s beginning to look a lot like
Christmas – well, at the Amalienborg Palace at least. As December
gets under way, the Danish Royal Family have a special treat in
store for their fans and it’s all under the control of none other
than Queen Margrethe…
This month marks the 150th anniversary of
the birth of Queen Maud of Norway. There British royal became a
queen in 1905 but her path to a throne began nine years earlier
when she married her cousin in a very Victorian wedding. However,
the seemingly run of the mill royal…
Belgium’s King and Queen have given a
rare interview to mark their twentieth wedding anniversary. And
speaking to RTBF, King Philippe revealed that the couple’s romance
and marriage plans had left them ”on a cloud”. The couple spoke to
Patrick Weber for a special programme celebrating the two decades
since they became husband and wife. The interview was recorded at
their…
Sweden's Princess Christina in search of the grandmother she never knew
22nd November 2019
Princess Christina, sister of King Carl
XVI Gustaf of Sweden, has written a book about their paternal
grandmother to mark the centenary of her death. And she’s had some
very royal help – her cousins, Queen Margrethe II and Princess
Benedikte of Denmark have been…
As the Duke of York announces he is
stepping back from public life for the ”forseeable future”, Royal
Central brings you a special podcast looking at the crisis that led
to Prince Andrew moving away from his public role. Join Brittani
Barger, Moniek Bloks and…
On this day, 72 years ago, newspaper
readers woke up to the story of a young prince and his friends
partying ahead of one of the biggest royal weddings of them all.
For on the night before he said ‘I do’ to the future queen, Prince
Philip enjoyed a stag night and it was caught on camera. OK, there
are no drinking games for you to pore over here. But as he prepared
to wed a monarch…
The Prince’s Palace in Monaco was filled
with the tune of ‘Amazing Grace’ as celebrations took place on a
very special date in the country’s calendar. Events for National
Day in Monaco included a musical marking of the 90th anniversary of
the birth of…
Trio of historic royal paintings on show together for first time
16th November 2019
They were created to show the power of a
Queen and now they will be united for the first time to underline
that one woman’s continuing influence on history. Three Armada
portraits of Elizabeth I will go on show together next year. All
three paintings are versions of…
Prince Andrew's TV interview on Jeffrey Epstein dominates UK papers
16th November 2019
We have only heard a fraction of what
he’s going to say but already the interview given by the Duke of
York to BBC Two’s Newsnight programme is dominated UK papers.
Prince Andrew’s comment, that he ”let the side down” when he stayed
at the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is on the
front pages of the majority of Britain’s tabloids and…
