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…
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…
It’s been a difficult few weeks for the
Spanish monarchy, but you’d never know the tension behind the
scenes judging by Wednesday’s crowds welcoming King Felipe VI and
Queen Letizia to the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. Fans
carried a banner…
Prince Oskar Wilhelm Karl Hans Kuno of
Prussia was born on 15 July in 1915 at the Marmorpalais (Marble
Palace) near Potsdam in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of
Prince Oscar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia and his wife, Princess
Ina-Marie Gräfin of Bassewitz. He was the grandchild of Emperor
Wilhelm II of Germany. When Prince Oskar was three-years-old, his
family was forced to abdicate…
