On July 21st, Belgium celebrates its
National Day. Naturally, the Belgian Royal family plays a big role
in the celebrations. This year, however, the special day will be
marked very differently due to the ongoing pandemic. Let’s take a
look at King Philippe and Queen Mathilde’s agenda for the day. Each
year on the 21st of July, the Belgians celebrate their National Day
as they…
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…
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 seven decades before. But this
wasn’t a one way street of tributes. For the Queen made some rather
lovely nods to her…
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…
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 country has ever known. She reached the
25,000th day of her reign on July 18th 2020. This new milestone
also puts another…
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…
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 Princess Marie Bariatinsky, who had become
her lady-in-waiting in 1896 and who became a friend in her own
right, after the…
