It’s perhaps the most famous and talked
about royal wedding bouquet of all. The flowers carried by the
Queen Mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at her marriage in
April 1923 have entered regal folklore after the bride used them to
begin a royal wedding tradition known around the world. But do you
actually know what this celebrated bouquet looks like? The chances
are that the answer is no…
Buckingham Palace's Summer Opening Exhibition to mark 70th Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
28th March 2018
During the ten weeks of the Summer
Opening of the State Rooms in 2018, visitors to Buckingham Palace
will be able to enjoy a unique exhibition to mark the 70th Birthday
of HRH The Prince of Wales, entitled Prince and Patron, the Royal
Collection has announced today. His…
Just months after the high profile
wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, Zara Phillips
married her longtime boyfriend, Mike Tindall. It wasn’t a wedding
full of cameras and politicians but an event with a down to earth
feeling. Zara Phillips is the…
At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in
the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey,
there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
had been newly granted the title, style and attribute of His Royal
Highness by Letters Patent from Whitehall on the morning of the
wedding and the announcement…
Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at
Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France.
The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the
English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with
the Barons, and King Edward II still…
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s
relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult
in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually
improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of
genuine closeness and affection. The…
The second big royal wedding of the 1980s
was, at the time, seen as a something of a turning point for the
Windsors. When Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in the summer
of 1986, the bride was billed as a more relaxed royal who would
bring a new outlook to the dynasty while her groom’s service in the
Falklands War of 1982 was still fresh in the memory. The handsome
hero prince and his fun…
This year marks the two hundredth
anniversary of British history’s double royal wedding at Kew
Palace, between the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Duke of
Clarence with Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. For the Duke and
Duchess of Kent, this was their second English…
The wedding dress worn by Princess
Alexandra of Denmark, later Princess of Wales and Queen Alexandra
is displayed as part of the current exhibition Royal Women, in
Bath’s Fashion Museum. Kept in the Royal Ceremonial Dress
Collection at Kensington Palace, the dress is on…
In addition to the four weddings of Queen
Victoria’s children which took place at St. George’s Chapel, two
other marriages were performed at St. George’s within the Queen’s
family during her lifetime, which are far less known – that of
Princess Frederica of Hanover, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen
(1848-1926) in 1880 and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein
(1872-1956) in 1891. The…
