Features

A royal rarity - an emerald engagement ring

It’s rare to see a royal engagement ring featuring an emerald. The striking stone features in very few of these most romantic pieces of jewellery but it has a starring role in the ring worn by a princess who will walk down the aisle at this summer’s biggest royal…
British Royals

Why King Charles will miss out on a plate of dead ducks

The King will start a new tradition when he visits an island that still addresses him by one of his oldest titles. King Charles and Queen Camilla are due to visit Jersey in the coming days. But the usual welcome given to the Monarch on the biggest of the Channel Islands has undergone a subtle shift. It’s long been the custom for the Sovereign to be presented with two dead ducks when…
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Monaco

The royal bride who wore the trousers

It’s a very famous royal wedding outfit, a style statement worn as a much talked about bride became a princess. Charlene Wittstock arrived at her civil marriage to Prince Albert II of Monaco in a trouser suit she designed with the help of Karl Lagerfeld. Charlene and Albert’s civil wedding took place on July 1st 2011 at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco. For the event, the first…
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Features

The symbolism of the first photos of King Charles with his Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer

They are pictures for the history books and ones that speak volumes. As King Charles III appointed a new Prime Minister there were, of course, official images of the moment. And they told their own story. The King held an audience with Sir Keir Starmer just after noon on July 5th 2024, hours after Labour had won a landslide victory in the general election. As was expected, King Charles asked…
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