This month, the Queen of Denmark celebrates her 80th birthday. While celebrations will take place later in the year, owing to the coronavirus outbreak, as Margrethe reaches this major milestone, her remarkable life and reign are again in the spotlight. Today, let’s take a look at the love story of Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, one that lasted over 50 years.
Princess Margrethe met her…
Today, let’s take a look at Queen Margrethe’s life as she prepared to be a queen. We’re looking back at her life from 1959 to 1971, just before her January 1972 accession to the throne.
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Nineteen-year-old Princess Margrethe…
Today, let’s take a look back at some of the Spanish Royal Family’s best diamonds. Spoiler alert: there’s a lot of fleur-de-lys motifs!
Asturias Fleur-de-Lys Tiara
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Queen Letizia received this tiara as a fifth…
The flowers carried by the Duchess of Cornwall on her wedding day, April 9th 2005, were filled with personal touches that had their own place in her royal romance with the Prince of Wales. For not only were the flowers in Camilla’s posy highly significant, they had been grown by the bride and groom themselves.
The Duchess of Cornwall’s wedding flowers were a burst of spring sunshine. She…
Today, we’re looking back at King Philippe’s adult life until he became the King of the Belgians in 2013.
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After Prince Philippe turned 18, he joined the Belgium Royal Military School and began training. Here, he’s pictured in…
It was one of the most talked about royal weddings in decades. When Camilla Parker-Bowles and Charles, Prince of Wales on April 9th 2005 in Windsor, millions were watching. And they saw a royal bride with not one but two different wedding outfits for her big day. As the…
The birthstone of April, the diamond, is perhaps the most celebrated of all sparkling stones. Throughout the month, Royal Central is looking at some of the best known pieces dominated by diamonds in European jewellery collections. Today, let’s take a look at some of Monaco’s most majestic diamonds!
Diamond Foam Tiara
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One thing you’ll notice with…
The Great Seal of the Realm is a piece of history to savour. We don’t get to see it all that often and when it does make an appearance, it more than packs a punch.For this seal is part of a tradition that goes back to before the Norman Conquest and which, for…
Today, we’re looking at the early life of King Philippe. Born on 15 April 1960 to Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Liège, there was every chance that he would never ascend to the throne. His uncle, King Baudouin was on the throne at the time, and the married king…
Today, let’s look at some of the Norwegian Royal Family’s best diamond jewellery!
Diamond Daisy Bandeau
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Crown Princess Mette-Marit wore the Diamond Daisy Bandeau on her wedding day, 25 August 2001, a small diamond bandeau tiara featuring a row of diamonds fashioned into daisy floral shapes.
The bandeau was created in 1910 by Garrard in London.
