Official souvenirs for the Coronation are
now available – and they’ve been made with sustainability in mind.
A range of china and textiles has been launched by the Royal
Collection Trust and environmental issues have been key to their
production. Royal Collection Trust The china has all been made in
the UK with some innovative techniques, including changing the
design of the…
King Charles and Queen Camilla will
arrive in style for their coronation at Westminster Abbey. The
Royal Family has announced that the royal couple will travel in the
Diamond Jubilee State Coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster
Abbey. The modern-day carriage…
King Charles III is making considerable
changes to the coronation to modernise the ceremony and recognise
the monarchy’s position in the twenty-first century. Both the
coronation ceremony and procession will look quite different from
his mother’s coronation in 1953.
Invitations to the Coronation will have
their own place in the history books. The ornately decorated cards
are inspired by nature and the flora and fauna of the United
Kingdom, all twining round the royal crests of King Charles and
Queen Camilla. And each of those blooms has a significance of its
own. The King’s great, great, great grandmother, Queen Victoria,
was a great fan of the…
Nearly every European monarch is related
to the House of Windsor in some way or another. King Christian IX
of Denmark and Queen Victoria of Great Britain both sought to marry
their numerous children and grandchildren into houses across
Europe, and these bloodlines are still…
When King Charles III and Queen
Camilla announced their engagement in February 2005 they
wasted no time in setting a date or venue for their marriage. In
the official statement issued on February 10th 2005, they said they
would marry on April 8th that year in a civil…
While there are reports of changes ahead
of King Charles III’s Coronation in May, each Coronation has had
its own changes. King George VI was the first monarch to give a
Coronation speech to be broadcast over the radio on the day of his
Coronation. King George V gave the first royal radio
broadcast on 23 April 1924 when he opened the British Empire
Exhibition. In addition to being the first…
Red carpet and royalty make perfect partners at Kensington Palace's new exhibition, Crown to Couture
4th April 2023
In recent years there’s been plenty of
talk about whether royal power can combine with star power but a
new exhibition at Kensington Palace underlines that the mix is far
from modern. Crown to Couture, which opens on April 5 2023, brings
red carpet fashion face to face…
Queen Victoria’s reign is notable for its
length, for its innovations and revolutions, and for her
steadfastness in navigating the Crown through to modern times. Her
fashion was legendary both contemporarily—she helped popularise
white wedding dresses—and today as a…
The sparkling jewel that symbolises the union of Monarch and nation at the Coronation
4th April 2023
The Sovereign’s Ring is an important
symbol of a monarch’s coronation, representing their ‘kingly
dignity’ and, in more ancient times, their union to their nation.
William IV, crowned in 1831, was the first to wear the current
Sovereign’s Ring, which was created by the then royal goldsmith,
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. It has been worn at subsequent
coronations ever since, with the…
