The Duchess of Cornwall will make a royal
debut as she is installed as a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter. Her appointment was announced at the end of 2021.
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was established in 1348 by
Edward III. Appointments to it are only made at the discretion of
Her Majesty The Queen. The Duchess will receive the Order during
the Garter Day event at…
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…
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 House of Commons of The
Queen’s wish to change her tax arrangements. This meant she took
full responsibility for working…
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…
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 the 70th anniversary of The Queen’s
reign. It will also feature previous Jubilee emblem designs. Run in
accordance…
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…
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 speech, Her Majesty said: “When I
was first here, there were just three United Nations operations
overseas. Now over…
