Princess Beatrice and her husband are
expecting a new addition to their family. The princess is pregnant
with her second child, due in the spring. The couple already have a
daughter, Sienna, who has just turned three. Edoardo has a son,
Wolfie, aged eight, from a previous relationship. The new baby will
be eleventh in line to the throne. They will also be a fourth
grandchild for the Duke…
The king who might have found his country under invasion from Boris Johnson
28th September 2024
The former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson,
has revealed he considered invading the Netherlands during the
height of the Covid pandemic. Boris Johnson writes in his memoir
that he looked at the possibility of launching an aquatic raid on a
warehouse in Leiden to grab…
Prince Francois steals the show as Pope Francis is greeted by Luxembourg's royals
26th September 2024
They share a name and now they’ve shared
the limelight during a very important visit. As Pope Francis was
welcomed to the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg by the country’s
royal family, his namesake prince was very happy to see him.
[getty…
Queen Camilla’s Friday night out at a pub – and the boozer’s rather cheeky royal tribute
21st September 2024
Queen Camilla has made like the rest of
us and headed to the pub to get the weekend started. However, Her
Majesty’s Friday night on the tiles had a rather royal ring, as you
might expect. The Queen was at the Fife Arms in Braemar on
September 20th with the visit recorded in the Court Circular.
However, there was no mention of whether Queen Camilla had popped
into the establishment’s famous…
Did Buckingham Palace just give the thumbs up to a very difficult duke?
20th September 2024
Buckingham Palace might just have given
away a very big secret. For years, there has been debate about the
standing of a certain duke inside royal circles and now a brief
social media post could have revealed how the Palace really feels
about him. And it appears that an…
The controversial king who's about to be put in storage by the Chancellor
20th September 2024
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is
reported to be switching up the pictures in Downing Street and
first to be relegated out of sight is a king whose controversial
reign led to him losing his throne. James II’s portrait currently
hangs in the state room at Number 11…
Queen Margrethe is in hospital after a
fall at her home. The queen, who is 84, was taken to the
Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen on Wednesday evening after falling at
Fredernsborg Castle. The royal court said she was ‘doing well under
the circumstances’ but remains in hospital for observation. The
fall came after a day of engagements for the queen which saw her
open a multiple…
It was a marriage that sealed a famous
love story and turned a princess into a queen. On September 18th
1964, royalty from across Europe gathered in Athens to see the
continent’s newest monarch wed a bride who had just turned
eighteen. Constantine II of Greece and…
The mystery at the heart of a royal wedding that created a world famous bridal tradition
16th September 2024
It’s perhaps the most famous and talked
about royal wedding bouquet of all. The flowers carried by the
Queen Mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at her marriage in
April 1923 have entered regal folklore after the bride used them to
begin a royal wedding tradition known…
A woman has been arrested after sitting
on the silver throne used by the King of Sweden Queen Christina’s
silver throne, which dates from 1650, is on display at the Royal
Palace in Stockholm. On September 14th 2024, a woman walked past
the cordons around the throne and sat on it. The incident was
witnessed by guards who called in the police. Queen Christina’s
Silver…
