It’s a big part of their diary every year
and 2019 proved no different. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess
of Cornwall headed to the south west of England for three days of
engagements in July and seemed to relish every second of it.
Charles and Camilla visited Cornwall and Devon in the middle of the
month, packing in a trio of engagements every day as big crowds of
wellwishers turned…
He’s the great showman but he might just
have been given a lesson in PR by the Queen. As Elizabeth II
welcomed Boris Johnson as her fourteenth Prime Minister, one small
detail of the official photos got everyone talking and helped put
British industry on the agenda…
As the Queen welcomes the fourteenth
Prime Minister of her reign, the ancient practice of ‘kissing
hands’ will once more take centre stage. The brief exchange between
monarch and premier will be mentioned in the Court Circular entry
marking the meeting that will…
Worn by a famous bride on the day she
became a queen, visitors to Madrid can get up close and personal
with one of the best known royal wedding gowns of the 20th century.
The Balenciaga creation chosen by a certain Fabiola de Mora y
Aragon for her 1960 marriage to King Baudouin of the Belgians is
part of a retrospective of the designer’s work now on at one of the
best known galleries in the…
She was the long dead widow who was used
by a king to overthrow his own nephew and yet her name is all but
forgotten today. Eleanor Butler was the woman who helped change the
royal history of England forever and almost brought one of its most
famous dynasties to disaster…
They’ve claimed crowns, founded dynasties
and shaped royal history but much of it has been done against the
odds. For those born outside of royal marriage were often seen as
also rans until they stormed the castles their parents called home.
For centuries, royal…
The royals might be heading off on their
summer holidays but their autumn diaries are already starting to
fill up. In recent days, two State Visits have been announced for
October 2019. The King and Queen of the Netherlands will make a
five day trip to India which will include visits to Mumbai, New
Delhi and Kerala. Willem-Alexander and Maxima are due to touch down
on October 14th for this State…
As summer approaches, Queen Victoria is
the royal everyone is talking about. Even the descendant who
supplanted her as longest reigning monarch in British history has
been following in her famous footsteps in the past few days as the
woman who changed our concept of royalty…
The Queen has been named as one of the
most admired people in the world in a new poll. The YouGov research
also shows that Elizabeth II makes the top twenty most respected
women in every country where the survey took place. The overall
poll lists the top twenty most admired…
It was one of the most anticipated,
watched and lauded moments of the 20th century but an invitation to
Buckingham Palace to send a congratulatory text marking the first
Moon landing was labelled a gimmick by courtiers. Documents just
released by the National Archives reveal that the Queen had her own
reservations about sending a royal message to the Moon in July
1969. As final preparations for…
