Charles III and Felipe VI have a linked
history with roots in centuries past. The pair share several
bloodlines including ties to two of the most famous matchmakers in
royal history. Here are the different ways Charles III and Felipe
VI get to call each other cousins. The Victorian Side to King
Felipe’s links to King Charles The queen who dominated the 19th
century is an ancestor of…
Princess Charlene is pretty in pink as she celebrates Prince Albert of Monaco's anniversary
20th July 2025
Princess Charlene of Monaco was pretty in
pink as she marked one of the biggest moments in her husband’s
reign. The Princess joined Albert II for spectacular celebrations
held as he reached 20 years as Sovereign of Monaco. For the event,
which saw big crowds…
The year 1923 saw the marital calendar
was packed with princely nuptials. The springtime wedding of
Albert, Duke of York had brought huge crowds to London, and there
was an impressive turnout in the city that autumn when Lady Louise
Mountbatten wed Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf…
She was the long dead widow who was used
by a king to overthrow his own nephew and yet her name is all but
forgotten today. Eleanor Butler was the woman who helped change the
royal history of England forever and almost brought one of its most
famous dynasties to disaster before they had even secured the
throne. But was she also Queen of England? Eleanor never claimed a
crown for herself but as…
The Enigmatic Fate of The Fair Rosamund:
Mistress to a King and a Mysterious Death The story of Rosamund
Clifford, one of medieval England’s most iconic and enigmatic
figures, has long captivated historians and storytellers alike.
Known as the “Fair…
The tiara left by a princess to her young godson to give to his future bride
18th July 2025
The Duchess of Gloucester has a jewellery
collection to rival some of those held by royal dynasties in
Europe. Some of her pieces come from Queen Mary thanks to the
current duke’s mother and her mother-in-law, Princess Alice. But
one tiara in particular has a different…
When King George V inherited the throne
from his father, Edward VII, in 1910, he was the second monarch in
the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. However, he would also be the
last monarch of the dynasty. Queen Victoria was the sixth
monarch in the House of Hanover. In 1840, she married Prince Albert
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Their son, King Edward VII, took the
throne in 1901 upon his…
Let the King choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury? Not without a constitutional crisis
17th July 2025
A recent letter published in The
Spectator has stirred the waters of Church and State by proposing
that King Charles III should personally choose the next Archbishop
of Canterbury. The suggestion, made by a parish vicar, speaks to a
deep sense of dissatisfaction in some…
It is a scenario that lies more in the
realm of royal drama than modern reality: a monarch dies suddenly,
leaving behind a pregnant consort and a nation unsure of its next
sovereign. Yet this constitutional conundrum is one that has been
anticipated for centuries. British…
It was an act that shocked the world and
which is still seen as one of the most tragic royal ends of all. On
17 July 1918, the former Russian Imperial Family was executed by
the new Bolshevik government. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina
Alexandra Feodorovna, and their children, Grand Duchess Olga, Grand
Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and
Tsarevich Alexei were first…
