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…
For over twenty years, it was accepted
that Prince Edward would one day be Duke of Edinburgh. Prince
Philip’s youngest son was lined up for the title by the man himself
and the decision was shared on the day that Edward got married, in
June 1999. However, it’s…
This could be the last week the Spanish
Royal Family is working before their annual holiday in Palma de
Mallorca, the biggest of the Balearic Islands, and Their Majesties
are definitely making it count. On Tuesday, King Felipe, Queen
Letizia and Infanta Sofía held…
Later this week, Queen Margrethe will
visit the Faroe Islands aboard the Royal Yacht Dannebrog in her
role as queen of the North Atlantic islands. Ahead of her visit,
let’s take a look at Queen Margrethe’s history with the Faroe
Islands. It was officially confirmed in April that Queen Margrethe
would visit the Faroe Islands and that the visit would afford her
the “opportunity to…
