Of all the current Royal Palaces, St
James’s is the most senior and all foreign ambassadors to this
country are still referred to as being appointed to the Court of St
James’. This is perhaps ironic, as the palace was constructed in
the 1530’s by King Henry VIII, as somewhere to escape from the
rigid court life of the Palace of Whitehall. It was built on the
site of a leper hospital…
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Margriet to honour Olympic medal winners
25th February 2018
It has been announced in the Netherlands,
that the medal winners from both the Winter Olympics and
Paralympics will be presented to King Willem-Alexander, Queen
Máxima and Princess Margriet on the 23rd March at the Noordeinde
Palace. This will be the culmination of…
The spectacular pyramids which cover the
tombs of the pharaohs are well-known, but the long-running
excavation of the Western Cemetery at Giza has recently discovered
the tomb of a female official from around 4500 years ago. Egypt’s
Ministry of Antiquities announced the…
Countess of Wessex saves boy’s sight after noticing condition on trip to Bangladesh
21st January 2018
A young Bangladeshi boy has had an
operation on a squint, following the Countess of Wessex meeting him
and his parents, while she was visiting Bangladesh on behalf of the
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust last November, the Trust has
announced. The announcement was made this week and coincided with
the Countess’s fifty-third birthday. She had been out in the remote
Bangladeshi village of…
A tomb has been discovered in the Tuva
Region of Southern Siberia that pre-dates another found in the
1970s close by, in what archaeologists have dubbed the Siberian
Valley of the Kings. This is dig, by Gino Caspari, an archaeologist
from University of Bern, working with…
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia orders Kuwaiti child to be transferred to Riyadh for treatment
15th January 2018
It has been announced from Jeddah that
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a member of the Royal Family in
Saudi Arabia has stepped in and ordered the transfer of a very sick
Kuwaiti child from a local maternity hospital in Kuwait to a
state-of-the-art medical facility in…
In his annual Christmas address, Prince
Hans-Adam II, the Head of State in Liechtenstein chose rather than
a review of 2017 to describe the history of the principality. This
is ahead of the upcoming celebration of 300 years since
Liechtenstein became a dynastic principality. The Prince can trace
his lineage via the direct male line to three of the previous
fourteen Princes of Liechtenstein and a…
The British Monarchy has acquired
residences across Great Britain through the centuries and moulded
them to their own preferences. We look at the top five royal
residences, how they were acquired, how they have changed over the
centuries and the use that Queen Elizabeth II…
With a series of twists and turns similar
to the television series “Fake or Fortune”, it has been revealed
that the Leonardo da Vinci painting sold for $450 million dollars
once graced the walls of both Greenwich Palace and the then
Buckingham House, the latter which now…
Henry was born in Stirling Castle on 19th
February 1594, the son of King James VI of Scotland and Anne of
Denmark. James put Henry into the care of James Erskine, Earl of
Mar, rather than his wife, Anne because he did not want him to be
brought up a staunch Catholic. This did not sit well with his wife
at all. However, the young Prince remained with the Mar family
until 1603 when King James was…
