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In the days between the death of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Late Majesty’s State Funeral, the country she had ruled for seventy years went into national mourning. And amidst the week and a half of ceremonial and constitutional events came some moments that would mark the passing of a Monarch. Amongst the most striking symbols of that strange time was the rainbow. As Buckingham Palace…

As 2022 comes to an end, Royal Central takes a look back at our ten most popular posts of the year. Our tenth most read article was a feature by Lydia Starbuck on Mary Seymour – the only child of Katherine Parr. Originally published on 13th July 2022, the full post can be read below. Within the walls of one of England’s most picturesque castles, a queen gave birth to her only child and…

She had made the season her own. The festive season at the end of the 19th century was very different from that in 1837, the year she had become monarch. Yet the final Christmas of Queen Victoria was filled with heartbreak. The queen herself could not get away from it, noting in her diary for December 25th 1900 ”this has indeed been a terribly sad Christmas for us all!”. And it had…

For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II was a staple of Christmas Day, appearing on television, radio and on the internet throughout her reign to deliver her annual Christmas Message. This year, King Charles III will deliver his first Christmas broadcast – a tradition started by his great-grandfather, King George V, and continued through his grandfather, King George VI via radio broadcast. It…