With a slimmed-down 2020 National Day ahead, we are taking a look at previous National Day celebrations in Sweden with the Royal Family.
The females in the family always dress in the traditional Swedish dress and the family rides in carriages to Skansen for a concert. They later host a reception at the Royal Palace, which is officially opened for the summer by a member of the family earlier in…
Pearls are the birthstone of June and they’ve formed parts of royal jewel collections for centuries. Today let’s look at some of the best pearl tiaras in the Dutch Royal Family’s collection!
Antique Pearl Tiara
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While King Henry VIII lived, his greatest fear was dying without a male heir to the throne. As it turns out, he needn’t have worried, for when he died in 1547, King Henry was succeeded by his son Edward VI. But the new King Edward was very frail and sickly boy of nine, and…
Each year, Buckingham Palace holds three garden parties in May, allowing ordinary citizens the opportunity to rub shoulders with royalty. While this year’s events were cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic, Royal Central is sharing the history behind Queen Elizabeth’s ‘favourite’ royal event.
Each May, Buckingham Palace throws open the gates and allows 30,000 specially…
Princess Birgitta of Sweden has always known how to make her mark. The second sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf is known for her originality and her wedding was stand out, too, for several reasons. Birgitta was the only one of her siblings to marry a fellow royal and the only…
Prince Joachim, the 28-year-old nephew of King Philippe of the Belgians, has tested positive for the Coronavirus after attending a private party in Spain last Tuesday.
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8 August 1988
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At 8:18 p.m. on 8 August 1988, Princess Beatrice was born at the Portland Hospital in London, the same hospital where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would welcome their son, Archie in 2019. Four days after the Princess’s birth, her parents introduced her to the…
All Fine on the Day: a look at past royal weddings which have turned out well despite problems
29th May 2020
On the day Princess Beatrice was supposed to marry her fiancé EdoardoMapelli Mozzi, Jane Dismore takes a look back at other royal weddings which faced problems, but turned out fine in the end.
Being part of a royal family may be a privilege but it does not protect…
His Majesty King Rama V of Siam, present-day Thailand, also called King Chulalongkorn, was born in 1853 and died in 1910. As a fifteen-year-old, Chulalongkorn ascended the Siamese throne, but because of his young age, his uncle acted as his guardian.
During his five years…
Today’s Royal History Mystery focuses on the fate of one of medieval England’s most famous royal mistresses. What happened to The Fair Rosamund?
Much of Rosamund Clifford’s life is now the stuff of legend and folklore but, in her time, she was England’s greatest beauty and Eleanor of Aquitaine’s greatest nemesis.
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Rosamund Clifford may have…
