Newlyweds Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and
Princess Beatrice have shared more photos of their wedding day. The
couple, who got married on July 17th at Windsor, added two more
images to their official album. They were taken by Benjamin Wheeler
who also took the two photos already shared which captured the
couple straight after their wedding ceremony. Photograph by
Benjamin Wheeler. The new…
It was a secret wedding that was all over
before we even knew it was on. Princess Beatrice and Edoardo
Mapelli Mozzi took us all by surprise by marrying discreetly at
Windsor on July 17th 2020. The bride and groom emerged from their
ceremony beneath a huge arch of bloom…
In the end, this was a royal wedding all
about the special bond between a grandmother and granddaughter. As
Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, she wore a gown
that had once belonged to her granny and the tiara that the Queen
had chosen for her own wedding over…
It’s become one of the big questions in
the run up to a royal marriage – which tiara will the bride wear?
It’s now an accepted part of any Windsor wedding and the decision
of Princess Beatrice to wear the same tiara as her grandmother did
as a bride for her big day is both sentimental and rather
significant. For Beatrice is now the third generation of the
Queen’s family…
The Royal family has many notable pieces
of jewellery in its collection. While Royal Central has covered
different parts of the vast collection, this month Royal Central is
looking at Britain’s famous rubies. Considered one of the
traditional cardinal gems along…
Elizabeth II has reigned for 25,000 days,
another milestone in a reign already filled with history The Queen
took the throne on February 6th 1952. Since then she has become the
longest reigning Monarch in British history as well as the longest
lived Monarch that the…
Prince Joachim of Prussia may have found
himself a king had history worked out differently. Today, on the
100th anniversary of his death, let’s take a look back at the life
of the man who might have been King of Ireland. Prince Joachim
Franz Humbert of Prussia was born 17 December 1890, the youngest
son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his first wife, Augusta Victoria. He
was Kaiser Wilhelm’s…
Queen Victoria’s last journey by train
took place on Saturday 2 February 1901. The Great Western Railway
produced a beautifully illuminated train plan for the ‘Funeral of
Her Late Most Gracious Majesty The Queen. Arrangement of Royal
Train. Paddington to Windsor. 1.32…
“She was a rare flower, too delicate for
this world, but rejoicing others with her fragrance and cheering
them on the way…” With these words, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of
Russia described the death of her friend, Julia, Countess Rantzau
in a letter of 1901 to…
On a cool day in early spring 1929, a
king in waiting made his way to one of his country’s most famous
churches for his wedding. At his side was a childhood friend. The
bond between the men was strong enough for the groom to ask his
royal relation to act as best man on this very special day. They
were decked in military uniform and the royal honours of their
respective countries while the…
