Last week it was announced that Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall would travel to Greece later this month and attend its Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations.Â
This will be Charles’s third visit to a country where his royal ancestry goes back three generations.
The Prince of Wales’s great-grandfather, King George I of Greece, was the…
On Sunday March 21st 2021, the Census takes place in the UK. Every ten years, all households in the country are required to fill in a form with details of everyone living in that one unit to give a picture of the population and help plan future services. The information is…
It was a royal wedding for the history books, the marriage of a future king and a regal love match to boot. On this day in 1929, Olav of Norway married Martha of Sweden in Oslo. The couple’s romance had captured the public imagination while their rather glamourous…
Princess Louise, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, holds an interesting spot in history. She supported higher education for women and feminist causes and was closely involved in the arts – not at all common for a Victorian princess. In opposition to her siblings, her mother wanted her to marry a British suitor rather than a foreign one. Louise married the…
Aquamarines are the birthstone for March, and the blue-tinted stone features in many royal jewel sets across Europe. This month, Royal Central is taking a look at our favourite royal aquamarines.
My all-time favourite is the Swedish royal Aquamarine Kokoshnik Tiara. The…
It’s two hours of TV that has dominated debate for days and looks set to keep us all talking for much longer. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has made headlines around the world. The Royal Central team looks at the questions left now…
It might be very much in the ‘just in case’ corner but The Regency Act 1937 is a powerful document that decides who controls the Crown if the Monarch is either unable to carry out their duties or if the throne passes to a child. And the Act that sets the stall out in the 21st century is rather different from previous provisions. For until the early 20th century, it was presumed that if…
It was one of the most talked about weddings of the 19th century. All eyes were on a young, Danish princess called Alexandra as she walked into St. George’s Chapel, Windsor on March 10th 1863 to marry Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Her groom was heir to Queen…
There’s always much excitement when a royal baby makes their Buckingham Palace balcony debut and while in recent times, parents have tended to wait until their new arrivals have reached their first birthday before braving the waving, some have dared to try sooner. In…
It was a wedding fit for a queen in waiting but the bride and groom only made it to the altar after a wave of protest, some of it angry, that threatened to stop their romance in its tracks. When Beatrix of the Netherlands, then heir to her country’s throne, wed Claus van Amsberg in 1966, the recent past proved more than problematic. The couple overcame those troubles and enjoyed a successful…
