Today, images of the Royal Family are
everywhere. As technology advances, we can instantly retrieve
images of any member of the Royal Family, both in private and
outperforming their royal duties. Now, because of this, the members
of the royal family can be recognized instantly. However, this was
not always the case, many of the royal portraits released by
monarchs of the past were not very…
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart was the second
child of King James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Born on
28th June 1692 at St-Germain-en-Laye, Louisa was referred to as The
Princess Royal by her father’s supporters, the Jacobites. James
Francis Edward and Louisa…
Christmas is just that time of the year
where it is perfectly acceptable to eat and drink as much as you
see fit. That theory even stood during the reign of the House of
Stuart, probably in a bigger sense than it does today. King Charles
I and his family spent several months…
Looking at some of the many photographs
taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often
linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that
these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria
would lose several grandsons including Prince Albert Victor, Duke
of Clarence as well as Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia,
the sons of her eldest…
On the early morning of the 22nd August
1485, Richard III and Henry Tudor finally faced each other in
battle near the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. The
short battle, lasting only a couple of hours, ended in the death of
Richard III and the ascendancy of the…
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…
Its one of the biggest mysteries in
English history and in fact world history, who was responsible for
the death of the two Princes in the Tower? While it seemed to many
that the answer to this question would never be known, one Philippa
Langley is preparing to crack the greatest of all cold cases. The
Princes in the Tower. Philippa Langley is best known as a historian
and screenwriter who…
Princess Helena Victoria, known as Thora,
loved tennis and golf We’re used to seeing the Duke of Kent at
Wimbledon and in recent years, the Duchess of Cambridge has become
a regular supporter of the tennis played at the All England Club.
But rewind nine decades and another…
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’.
For a princess who claimed a bit of a
royal first at the baptismal font, it’s perhaps not surprising that
Patricia of Connaught – known for most of her adult life as Lady
Patricia Ramsey – ended up changing plenty of regal rules on her
way. The little girl who was born in Buckingham Palace on
March 17th 1886 grew up to be one of the most eligible women in
Europe, and when she…
