Beginning on August 5th and ending on
Remembrance Day (11th November), the dry moat will be turned into a
sea of red as each poppy will mark the British or Colonial soldier
killed during the conflict. There will be 888,246 poppies will be
laid in the moat to represent the lives lost. The poppies are
currently in production by 50 potters at the Derby studio of Paul
Cummins. Cummins was asked to…
On 4 May 1953, The Duke of Edinburgh
received his wings. The Duke was awarded his pilot’s wings in a
private ceremony that was held at Buckingham Palace. Air Chief
Marshall Sir William Dickson, Chief of Air Staff, present The
Prince with the award. Flight-Lieutenant Caryl…
The festival was coordinated to
commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It
exhibited Britain's c past, present, and future contributions to
society through the arts, science technology and industrial design.
Crowds gathered as the Royal Family made…
On 29 April 1986 The Duchess of Windsor,
Wallis Simpson was buried alongside her husband, The Duke of
Windsor at Frogmore in Windsor. The Duchess was buried in an
English oak coffin that contained a silver inscribed plate stating,
“Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, 1896-1986”. St George’s Chapel held
the rather simple funeral mass. Flags were flown at half-staff but
there was none of the…
In 1525, after 18 years of marriage to
Catherine of Aragon, daughter to Ferdinand II of Aragon and
Isabella I of Castille, the Spanish king and queen, Henry VIII
began to seek an annulment of his marriage. This was not unheard
of. In fact, the Pope had previously allowed…
The Queen, the Lover, the Mother, the
Outcast, the Victim and the Survivor; the six wives of Henry the
8th. Historian and Tudor expert Alison Weir brings to life these
six remarkable women in her book titled The Six Wives of Henry the
8th. The book is divided into three main…
Since George III made the Palace a family
home in 1761, the infamous London landmark has seen numerous births
and christenings of Royal children, including all 4 of Queen
Elizabeth’s children. Victoria even had another wing built in 1845
to accommodate her growing brood, which reached 9 in total, and so
there are many plenty of items to exhibit, charting
the history of Royal babies for over…
On 3 April 1987 the late Duchess of
Windsor’s jewellery fetched £31m ($50m) at auction in Switzerland.
The sum was six times the expected figure projected the collection
would garner. It was said that 1,000 bidders and 300 members of the
media packed into an enormous tent…
They are the men who have been on hand at
some of the most pivotal moments in royal history. Among their
number are those who took King John to sign the Magna Carta, or who
carried Anne Boleyn on her coronation day. In modern times, they
were at the heart of the Diamond…
Every other member of the present Royal
Family, including Her Majesty’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh, have
given interviews with the media – but The Queen herself, she
remains resolute. She has certainly come close over the years,
with several notable examples which have been recorded and are in
existence today. The most prominent of these occasions was in 1992
when, for a BBC documentary to…
