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…
Legend has it that if the ravens ever
leave the Tower of London, the kingdom will fall. Now, the man
who’s just taken charge of ensuring their safety, and with it that
of the realm, has revealed just what The King thinks of the
tradition. Yeoman Michael Chandler…
A tiara that began as a wedding present
from devoted parents to a daughter about to marry a king’s son got
a new chapter in its royal history after decades of being hidden
behind palace doors. The Princess of Wales chose the Strathmore
Rose tiara for the State…
Within the walls of one of England’s most
picturesque castles, a queen gave birth to her only child and set
in motion a chain of events that would become one of Tudor
England’s most intriguing mysteries. The birth had been much
anticipated and much talked about. The baby, a little girl, was
immediately taken off to a nursery decked in scarlet and gold where
a string of…
