The tourist areas at both Windsor Castle
and the Palace of Holyroodhouse are to undergo a £37m revamp,
the Royal Collection has announced. The revamp will include a new
cafe to be built in the medieval undercroft at Windsor Castle and
the outside space at the Palace of Holyroodhouse will be
redeveloped. It will also include two purpose-built learning
centres and is aimed at improving the visitor…
National Galleries of Scotland acquires long lost painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie
31st March 2016
A long lost painting of Bonnie Prince
Charlie has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland. It
portrays the Young Pretender during the ill-fated Jacobite Rising
of 1745 and is through the be only one painted in Britain during
his lifetime. The National Galleries…
Wolf Hall, the historical drama based on
Thomas Cromwell’s rise in King Henry VIII’s court, leads the Bafta
nominations with a total of four nominations. The series has been
nominated in Best Drama, Mark Rylance, who played Cromwell has
been nominated for…
The Imperial War Museum is putting
letters from two future kings on display for first time, one of
which describes how the future Edward VIII felt he had not earned
his military cross. King Edward VIII, then the Prince of Wales was
award the gallantry medal in 1916 for his frequent morale-boosting
trips to the trenches. The medal is intended for “acts of exemplary
gallantry during active…
Read part 1 of Britain’s Top Palaces
here. Let’s continue! Buckingham Palace, Westminster Buckingham
Palace may have a bit of a shorter history than other palaces but
it doesn’t make it any less impressive. It began life in 1703 as
Buckingham House, built…
Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia and
Yugoslavia is preparing to sue Serbia after a request of his family
to regain the palace complex in Dedinje has been denied by the
Agency for Restitution. He will continue to fight for his
inheritance, though he believes it will be hard…
The Swedish Court has released new photos
of Prince Oscar, the son of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince
Daniel who was born on 2 March 2016. The photos are accompanied
with a word of thanks from the Crown Princess and Prince Daniel.
The message reads: “Thank you very much for all the greetings, good
wishes and congratulations we received in connection with Princess
Estelle’s birthday…
The Duke of Cambridge will spend the
Easter weekend in Kenya attending the wedding of his former
girlfriend Jessica Craig. The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to
stay at home with their two children, Prince Georhe and Princess
Charlotte. In a press release from Kensington…
Prince Harry has announced he will be
extending his trip to Nepal for an extra six days to help with an
earthquake relief project – rebuilding a school damaged by the
earthquake in cooperation with Team Rubicon. He made the
announcement on the last day of his official…
Kensington Palace has said that a
memorial garden in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, is being
planned ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death. Historic Royal
Palaces is responsible for overseeing the plans and said the garden
was in the “very early stages of development”. If it is completed,
it will be the fourth London memorial created in Diana’s honour. It
is expected to…
