The Duchess of Sussex is not known as
‘Princess Meghan’ for exactly the same reasons that the Duchess of
Cambridge is not known as ‘Princess Catherine’. Although both women
listed their job titles as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’,
neither woman is afforded the title. Upon their marriage in 2018,
The Queen granted Prince Harry the title of Duke of Sussex, with
Meghan…
A vehicle which was used by Diana,
Princess of Wales in the 1980s has sold for an extraordinary
£650,000 at auction. The late princess drove the black Ford Escort
RS Turbo from August 1985 for a period of around three years. When
performing official duties, Diana was…
The royal woman who went from hidden queen to founder of history's most famous dynasty
25th August 2022
For a woman who founded one of the most
famous royal dynasties in British history, she is surprisingly
enigmatic. Katherine of Valois was the first Kate to be Queen of
England and yet much of the modern imagining of her comes from her
fleeting appearance in the works of…
The sad anniversary that has given the Duke of Kent a place in the royal record books
25th August 2022
The Duke of Kent is marking a poignant
anniversary as he becomes the first person in recorded history to
hold a dukedom for eighty years. Prince Edward, 86, became Duke of
Kent on August 25th 1942 at the age of six when his father was
killed in a plane crash. He has now held his title for eight
decades, easily the longest that anyone has ever been a royal duke.
It is a moment of deep…
Could The Queen have found her 2023 Derby horse? Excitement builds over promising two-year-old colt
19th August 2022
The Queen may have found a live contender
for the Epsom Derby in 2023, with the picture due to become clearer
over the weekend. Desert Hero, trained by William Haggas in
Newmarket, is declared to run in the Group 3 Solario Stakes at
Sandown on Saturday. The race is…
Everyone knows of the ancient Library of
Alexandria, which was located in Egypt and later destroyed – losing
a wealth of knowledge from the ancient world. But who was the
monarch responsible for its creation? It is thought the idea of the
library was first brought…
As we prepare for Princess Iman of
Jordan’s wedding, we look at the weddings of her grandfather King
Hussein, who was famously married four times. Embed from Getty
Images Three years after his accession to the throne, King
Hussein’s first wife was Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, who was also his
distant cousin. Dina was born on 15 December 1929 in Egypt. She met
her future husband in…
The exotic precedent set by a Monarch for appointing a Prime Minister away from Buckingham Palace
16th August 2022
As the Queen prepares to appoint the
fifteenth Prime Minister of her reign, the question of where she
will welcome them is much discussed. Her Majesty is now in Balmoral
for her annual summer break but is understood to be planning to
return to London to accept Boris…
No one knew it at the time but on August
4th 1900, a woman who would change the course of royal history had
made her debut. The birth of a daughter to Claude and Cecilia
Bowes-Lyon didn’t trouble the papers of the day one jot. But as
baby Elizabeth, later queen and…
She lived most of her adult life in the
spotlight and yet one very basic detail of her story is shrouded in
mystery. For no one is really sure exactly where Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother was born. And no one did more to get people
guessing than the Queen Mum herself. In 1980, as preparations were
under way for her eightieth birthday celebrations, a Clarence House
press officer was asked to…
