King Felipe travelled to the Principality
of Asturias to take part in various events connected with this
year’s Armed Forces Day, which in Spain falls on the Saturday
closest to the 30th of May. On Friday, 24th May, His Majesty
arrived on the San Lorenzo beach in Gijón, where he was welcomed by
State and local authorities, including the Minister of Defense, the
Chief of Staff of the…
Business as usual for Princess Anne as election forces Royal Family to reconsider agenda
23rd May 2024
As King Charles juggled his diary for an
unexpected meeting with the Prime Minister and Buckingham Palace
later confirmed that His Majesty and his family would be cutting
back on duties as a general election campaign got under way, one
Windsor didn’t get the…
Princess Leonor undertook her first solo
engagement in military uniform on the eve of a very significant day
for her family. The heir to the Spanish throne will probably
forever remember Tuesday, 21st May 2024 as the day her relationship
with the city of Zaragoza…
The family links of the sparkling tiara worn by Queen Letizia of Spain for her wedding
22nd May 2024
Before it rested upon Queen Letizia’s
head, her wedding tiara once graced the heads of royals from
Brunswick and Greece before arriving in Spain. The Prussian tiara
is a stunning work of diamonds and platinum formed into a kokoshnik
design. It was created in 1913 by Koch as a wedding gift and
features a scroll and meander motif with a central diamond. [getty
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Though she was an unconventional bride,
this future Spanish queen chose conventional royal styling on her
wedding day 20 years ago. Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz
Rocasolano shocked Spain when news of their impending engagement
was leaked in late October 2003: their…
The Luxembourgish Grand Ducal Family
welcomed is newest member on Tuesday, 14th May, and, despite not
bearing any royal titles, as far as we know so far, she was given a
name with a poignant royal history: Victoire, or Victoria in
English. It was a little used name…
When the then Prince Felipe of Spain
married Letizia Ortiz Rocosolano, in May 2004, it was not only a
historic day for the birth of a new family, or because it was the
wedding of the heir to the throne to one of Europe’s most ancient
dynasties. It also marked the first wedding in the Almudena
Cathedral in Madrid. Built between 1883 and 1993, it is one
of the most recent archdiocesan sees in…
Why Queen Letizia of Spain's famous engagement ring has disappeared from view
21st May 2024
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was not a name
familiar to royal watchers up until around 31 October 2003, and
even then, many had their doubts that the rumours—that her
engagement to Prince Felipe, the Prince of Asturias, was about to
be announced—were true. But on 1…
The sparkling tiara that became a symbol of an historic queen gets a brand new chapter in its 200 year story
15th May 2024
Queen Mary has worn one of the most
important tiaras in the Danish royal collection for the first time.
For the State Banquet held in Oslo at the start of her State Visit
to Norway, the Danish queen chose the Pearl Poire tiara, a
glittering creation with a regal…
Queen Mary and King Frederik of Denmark
will be celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary on 14 May
2024. Although their year has been busy with Frederik’s ascension
and the ensuing ceremonies and engagements, we are looking back at
their wedding with a closer look at Mary’s wedding gown. Then Mary
Donaldson, the future Danish Queen turned to Danish designer Uffe
Frank to create…
