Her Royal Highness The Duchess of
Gloucester officially opened a new hospice at Thorpe Hall last
Tuesday. Money for Sue Ryder’s Thorpe Hall Hospice, which cost £6
million to build, was collected through the fund raising efforts of
residents from Peterborough and Stamford. The Duchess of Gloucester
on a previous engagement. The Duchess of Gloucester was the Patron
of the Thorpe Hall Capital…
The 30th Frampton Country Fair will be
welcoming some special royal visitors this Sunday, as the
extravaganza is set for a visit from The Earl and Countess of
Wessex. During their visit, Their Royal Highnesses will view the
various rural skills demonstrations, as well as…
In just a short while, The Queen will
overtake the record set by Queen Victoria and go on to become the
longest reigning Monarch in British history. But while Her Majesty
has been blessed with a long reign, filled with prosperity and
happiness, there are others who have not…
A royal tribute to Britain's worst rail disaster is destroyed by vandals
4th September 2015
It was a sad day for the community of
Gretna Green last weekend. Vandals destroyed a tree that was
planted by the Princess Royal earlier this year to honour those who
perished in the Quintinshill Rail Disaster. On May 22, The Princess
Royal planted a tree near the railway tracks adjacent to the
Quintinshill Bridge to mark the centenary of Britain’s worst rail
disaster. Hundreds of residents…
A slice of wedding cake from the marriage
of Princess Elizabeth of England (the future Queen Elizabeth II) to
Philip Mountbatten recently sold for £500 at an auction. [getty
src=”107070380″ width=”594″ height=”482″] The slice was
taken…
The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Alix of Hesse, the last Tsarina
26th August 2015
Before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
the Russian Empire was a Monarchy ruled over by the Tsar and
his Consort. The last of these consorts was the wife of Tsar
Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna or, as she was known as a child,
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. Born on…
While King Henry VIII lived, his greatest
fear was dying without a male heir to the throne. As it turns out,
he needn’t have worried, for when he died in 1547, King Henry was
succeeded by his son Edward VI. But the new King Edward was very
frail and sickly boy of nine, and in just six short years he
succumbed to his illness, bringing his reign to an end and leaving
the throne unoccupied once…
For centuries prior to the Union of
England and Scotland in 1603, there was a bitter rivalry between
the two countries. King Edward, I of England in particular,
despised the Scots and sought to rule over them, earning himself
the nickname ‘Hammer of the Scots’.
Her Majesty The Queen is the epitome of
grandeur and magnificence. She lives in the lap of luxury, and is
always impeccably dressed, and surrounded by splendour. Which makes
it hard to believe that there was a time when her ancestors, Kings
of England themselves, spent…
The National Bank of Romania has issued
three new coins to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of
Romania’s greatest Kings, Ferdinand I. King Ferdinand is best
remembered for his role in expanding Romanian territories during
the First World War A statue of King Ferdinand I. He was King of
Romania for 13 years. Prince Ferdinand was born on August 24, 1865,
the son of Leopold, Prince of…
