The Duke of Edinburgh has sent good luck
wishes to the Paralympics GB team as the Paris Games get under way.
The message came just hours before the opening ceremony from Prince
Edward, who is patron of the British Paralympic Association.
Looking ahead to the Paris Games, the Duke of Edinburgh said ”to
all members of the Paralympics GB team heading for Paris, whether
athletes, officials…
With just days to go until Princess
Martha Louise of Norway gets married, her brother has addressed
some of the controversy around her big day. Crown Prince Haakon
spoke to journalists about the issues that have arisen ahead of
Martha Louise’s wedding to Durek…
The story behind some of the iconic
images that shaped royalty in the modern age is about to be shared.
Cecil Beaton took some of the most famous photos of royals
including the celebrated Coronation portraits of Queen Elizabeth
II. Now, a leading royal historian is set…
The Royal Family has celebrated one of
its most discreet yet dedicated members, the Duke of Gloucester, as
he turns 80. Prince Richard, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, marked
the start of his ninth decade on August 26th 2024. The Duke and
Duchess are among the hardest working members of the Royal
Family(Photo by Charlie Proctor) The official Royal Family social
media accounts were quick to…
Norway's king and queen won't appear in magazine photos of Princess Martha Louise's wedding
25th August 2024
The King and Queen of Norway won’t be
seen in the exclusive photos taken by a magazine of the wedding of
their only daughter. Princess Martha Louise marries Durek Verrett
on August 31st in Gerainger in Norway. Hello magazine and its
sister publication, Hola, have…
August will bring us this year’s big
royal wedding as Princess Martha Louise of Norway weds Durek
Verrett. The couple tie the knot in a private ceremony that will
cap a weekend of celebrations. And while there’s plenty of
speculation about what this uber stylish…
In August 1968, all eyes were on Oslo for
one of the biggest and most talked about royal weddings of recent
times. The heir to the throne of Norway, Crown Prince Harald,
finally married Sonja Haraldsen, after seeing off opposition from
those who felt a future king shouldn’t marry a non-royal. [getty
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The future queen who went Victorian with orange blossoms instead of diamonds at her wedding
22nd August 2024
She might have been marrying the then
heir to the Belgian throne, but when Paola Ruffo di Calabria said
‘I do’ to Albert, Prince of Liege, she had absolutely no
expectation that they would ever end up as Belgium’s king and
queen. So Paola’s wedding look was a…
In recent years, abdication has become
increasingly common among Europe’s monarchies but one king has just
been told by his country that they’d rather he didn’t consider it.
A new opinion poll in Norway has found that almost three quarters
of those asked…
For the first time ever you might be
about to find a pound coin with a king on it in your pocket. Brand
new pound coins are entering circulation this week and as well as
being the first of the reign of Charles III, they are also the
first pound coins to bear the image of a male Monarch as the pound
note was still in use the last time that the United Kingdom had a
king, during the reign of…
