This year, it is 150 years since the Norwegian Queen Maud was born in London. Much has been written about the queen who was elected to be monarch together with her husband as a new Norwegian royal couple in an independent Norway in 1905. When Queen Maud came to Norway, she brought a lot of jewellery with her. One item from this precious collection has simply disappeared. It has been stolen and it…
Christmas at Windsor to include gifts exchanged by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
23rd November 2019
The bicentenary of the births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will be celebrated by a small display at Windsor, once the setting for the many Christmases which the royal couple spent together with their growing family of nine children. Displayed in the Octagon Dining…
Historic Royal Palaces to mark 200th anniversary of King George III's death
20th November 2019
Following a year of commemorations marking the bicentennial
of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s births, next year Historic Royal Palaces
will commemorate the bicentennial of King George III’s death.
Kew Palace, a residence most closely associated with King George…
Trio of historic royal paintings on show together for first time
16th November 2019
They were created to show the power of a Queen and now they will be united for the first time to underline that one woman’s continuing influence on history. Three Armada portraits of Elizabeth I will go on show together next year.
All three paintings are versions of the same image, one of the most famous PR creations of the Tudor dynasty, renowed for its ability to put on a good public…
During her royal career, Princess Grace was active in
supporting Monaco on the global stage. She focused her charity work to support
the arts scene in Monaco, as well as flowers and gardening, healthcare, children,
and motherhood.
Today, we’re going to take a look at…
Grace Patricia Kelly, the Hollywood film star who became the most famous princess in the world, was born on November 12th 1929. Ninety years on, she remains one of the ultimate regal icons of the 20th century. From the romance that turned her into a princess to her work to…
Though her acting career was short-lived compared to her
role as the Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly was certainly one of the top stars
in Hollywood in the mid-1950s. Starting in live television and transitioning to
Hollywood roles—and ultimately winding up as an Oscar-winning, Hitchcockian
ice-blonde cool girl—the myth of Grace Kelly loomed large over Hollywood lore
long after she’d traded…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1980s. Before her untimely death in 1982, Grace maintained an active schedule of royal duties. She also struck up a friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales, prior to her wedding, and the…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1970s. This decade saw her as a hard-working royal who also took part in family events and made her way back to Hollywood several times for events. Perhaps the biggest event of the decade…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1960s. This decade saw her and Prince Rainer welcome their third child, Princess Stéphanie, in 1965; attend the Summer Olympics in Rome in 1960; pay two state visits to Ireland, in 1961 and 1965; and celebrate both the centenary of Monaco and Grace’s 40th birthday towards the end of the…
