Once upon a time, there was a fairytale.
I was just a little girl when it was told but like many who lived
through it, I still find a resonance in that strange summer day
when once upon a time met, briefly, happy every after. On July 29th
1981, the world stopped to watch a prince wed his princess. Even
the archbishop who married them was so involved in the dream that
had sprung up around them…
On 29 July 1981, 750 million people
around the world watched as Prince Charles married Lady Diana
Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Dubbed the “wedding of
the century”, the wedding broke records and set global fashion
trends. Forty years on, Royal…
The flowers chosen by Diana, Princess of
Wales for her wedding day are among the most memorable of royal
bouquets. The tumbling, trailing mix of cream, green and yellow
blooms that the bride carried into St. Paul’s Cathedral on July
29th 1981 for her marriage to the Prince…
In recent years, British royals, when in
need of a wedding day tiara, put in a request to the Queen, who
seems happy to oblige. But forty years ago when the world tuned in
to watch Lady Diana Spencer wed Prince Charles, the bride wore her
family’s tiara for the big day. The Spencers are a British
aristocratic family that can trace their history back for
centuries. The Spencer Tiara was…
It is perhaps the most famous royal
wedding dress of them all. The gown worn by Lady Diana Spencer for
her marriage to the Prince of Wales on July 29th 1981 at St Paul’s
Cathedral has a special place in royal history. Designed by David
and Elizabeth Emanual, it came to…
In the end, it wasn’t the fairytale
marriage the world had hoped for, but on 29 July 1981, Prince
Charles, the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer married in a
glittering ceremony that could best be described as a fairytale,
watched by an estimated one billion people.
On Monday, the Danish Court confirmed
that the Royal Yacht Dannebrog had rescued another boat that had
become stranded in the sea between Denmark and Sweden. Queen
Margarethe was on board the yacht at the time of the rescue, the
Court also confirmed. The rescued boat, a cutter, was first
directed towards the islet of Hesselø and was later towed to the
mainland. In addition to the…
The line of succession to the throne of
the longest reigning Monarch in British history has seen as few
changes in the past months and will undergo at least one more shake
up before 2021 is out. The arrival of the Queen’s twelfth great
grandchild later this year…
On Monday, the Danish Royal Court
announced that Crown Prince Frederik will now not attend the Tokyo
Olympic Games after having been in contact with someone who
subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. The Crown Prince
was set to travel to the Japanese capital from…
With The Queen fast approaching her
Platinum Jubilee, celebrating 70 years on the throne, she still
continues to be a fashion icon. Bookies offer odds on the colour
hats she wears to Ascot, and people continually speculate on the
contents and movements of her handbags. Over her life, she has been
dressed by and cultivated relationships with many different
designers. The most notable and enduring…
