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 see Boris Johnson become PM. In the
21st century, it’s thought the act involves either a very short and
symbolic…
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…
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 families have relied on legitimate heirs. In
centuries past, when being born outside of wedlock was frowned on
and led to shaming…
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…
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 men and top twenty most
admired women and contains just one royal among all forty
candidates. The Queen is the fourth most…
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…
We don’t always get photos to mark royal
birthdays but as the Duchess of Cornwall turns 72, official royal
social media accounts are sharing snaps and happy messages to mark
the big day. Clarence House got the ball rolling with a sunny snap
of Camilla, accompanied by a…
There was a poignant tinge to recent
engagements carried out by the Princess Royal. As Anne visited
Yorkshire on Monday she was dressed in black, a reminder that the
princess is in mourning for her mother-in-law who died earlier this
month. Sir Tim Laurence’s mother, Barbara, passed away on July 2nd
2019 at the age of 90. She died at a nursing home a few miles from
Gatcombe Park in…
