Fresh from her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Her Majesty The Queen has made two new appointments to the Order of the Thistle, the highest honour in Scotland.
One of the appointments is The Right Honorable Dame Elish Angiolini QC. Born in 1960, Elish is a Scottish lawyer who served as Lord Advocate of Scotland between 2006 and 2011. She was the first woman to hold the post. She was also the…
The outside of Buckingham Palace is getting ready for a concert to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. But if you walk past, you’ll notice a new addition to palace grounds, the “Tree of Trees.”
The 21-meter-tall tree was put in place days before it will be…
In November 1992, Her Majesty The Queen would once again make history (as she has done many times throughout her reign) as she became the first British monarch to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s.
Earlier in 1992, Prime Minister John Major informed the…
When you hear the term “Granny’s Chips,” you might be thinking of your grandma and her homemade chip recipe. When it comes to the Royal Family, Granny’s Chips is the furthest thing from a plate of fried potatoes; it’s one of the most recognisable diamond brooches in the world.
Queen Mary had passed on the diamond clip to her granddaughter Elizabeth as the…
A new and historic rose has been planted in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in honour of one of Britain’s first black gardeners.
The rose, bred as a mark of community and friendship, is named the John Ystumllyn rose after a celebrated horticulturalist who lived in…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee emblem is taking centre stage in a new, limited exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.
The display will celebrate the creativity of the young aspiring designers and the number of submissions for emblems to mark…
We are just weeks away from the Platinum Jubilee and while shops are selling mugs, shirts, and bunting, those commemorative items do not equate to the size of the souvenir that the Princess Royal recently unveiled.
The Princess visited Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire to unveil a 13m (43ft) table created from a black oak, found buried and preserved in a field in Norfolk in 2012. The trunk of the…
Before there was reality TV, back in the 1960s, it was documentaries that provided the chance to show another side of life. The Royal Family starred in one of the best known fly no the wall documentaries of the era, which came to screens in 1969.
Called Royal Family and…
Milestones of a Monarch: The Queen makes first UN speech more than 50 years
20th May 2022
In June 2010, The Queen addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time since 1957.
The seven-minute speech touched on The Queen’s first visit, decades earlier when the United Nations was still a young organisation itself.
During the…
Tube staff in the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers) have voted to walk out of Euston and Green Park stations on Friday, 3 June. Staff claim it’s because of a toxic work environment created by a “bullying manager.”
Stikes are set to last the entire day and will impact the Jubilee, Piccadilly, and Victoria line services at both stations – some…
