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…
Henry VIII is famous for many things but
perhaps the most talked about is his penchant for weddings. The
king with six wives clearly enjoyed being married even if those he
tied the knot with ended up less than impressed. However, Henry
didn’t like to make a fuss about…
Those who mocked Prince George's expression after agonising Euros defeat cheapen the meaning of 'the beautiful game'
12th July 2021
Royal Central’s Deputy Editor, Brittani
Barger, calls out a torrent of abuse directed at Prince George
following an agonising defeat for England in the European
Championships final at Wembley on Sunday. After the Euro 2020 final
match on Sunday, I tweeted a photo of…
On July 12th 1543, a rather low key royal
wedding took place. The groom was Henry VIII and his sixth wife was
Katherine Parr, a relatively unknown minor noblewoman who had risen
from daughter of a knight to Queen of England in thirty years. The
woman who became a royal bride on that Julyday at Hampton Court was
also one of her country’s most interesting…
End of an era - The Duke of Kent presents the Wimbledon trophy for the final time after 52 years of service
11th July 2021
The Duke of Kent has presented the
Wimbledon trophy for the final time after 52 years of service as
president of the All English Lawn Tennis Club. His Royal Highness
presented the trophy to Novak Djokovic – the Serbian’s third
successive Wimbledon win in the…
Many will only know the Duchess of Kent
as the lady who attended the Wimbledon Tennis Championship Finals
every year to hand out the prizes, famously letting Jana Novotna
cry on her shoulder in 1993. The Duchess of Kent, or Katherine Kent
as she prefers to be known, has…
He spent little time in England but one
very famous king’s emblem is now on the lips of millions in the
country he ruled but rarely visited. Football fans across the land
are singing ‘Three Lions on a Shirt’ and it’s all thanks to Richard
I. Appropriately known as Lionheart, Richard was the first English
king to put a hat trick of lions on his coat of arms and his
choice…