Princess Beatrice and fiancé, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, are set to wed the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, London, on the 29th of May.
In the leadup to their nuptials, Royal Central is looking back on other brides from the House of Windsor who married in the spring month of May.
The last royal wedding of a member of the Windsor family occurred on the 18th of May 2019 when the Lady…
Marie Sophie is arguably less famous than her sister, the Empress of Austria, known as Sisi. Yet, her actions to save her country from ruin should earn her place equal to or surpassing her famous sister. She was trapped in a deeply unhappy marriage and sought refuge with…
Queen Elizabeth II is NOT the Queen of England - is it so hard to get it right?
23rd February 2020
I am a bit of a stickler for correct usage of styles and titles. So it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine when these are used improperly. The main one that bugs me is calling Elizabeth II, Queen of England. That bothers me because “Queen of England” is not her correct…
Whatever happened to the 1969 documentary 'Royal Family' which The Queen banned from the public?
23rd February 2020
It has been over 50 years since the famous documentary ‘Royal Family’ was shown on British TV screens. At the time this, documentary really was the most talked about thing; not necessarily because of its content, but the plain fact that such a documentary was broadcast.
The chances are, unless you’re a really attentive royalist, you’ve never even heard of the documentary, and there’s…
Happy 87th birthday to the Duchess of Kent! Royal Central takes a look at "Mrs Kent's" remarkable life
22nd February 2020
Today. we’re going to take a look at the life of Katharine, The Duchess of Kent.
Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley was born 22 February 1933, the only daughter of Sir William Arthington Worsley of Hovingham, 4th Baronet and his wife Joyce. She has three older brothers.
The…
Belgium’s Queen Mathilde attended the Antwerp Management School event on Thursday that brought business and economic students together from management schools from Flanders where she spoke about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs).
The Queen is…
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was born on 21 February 1980 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to King Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his third wife, Queen Ashi Tshering Yangdon (the current Queen Mother). He has one older sister, Princess Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck (b. 1980) and eight younger siblings (four sisters and four brothers). His father has four wives, and as such, the King only has one full sister and one…
Princess Marie will undertake a humanitarian trip in Uganda from 26 February to 1 March as Patron of DanChurchAid. Princess Marie will be joined by DanChurchAid’s Secretary-General Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen and the organisation’s local staff during the trip where…
She was the daughter of a high ranking Egyptian official and the last Queen of Egypt as the second wife of King Farouk. The beauty married the King after he’d divorced his first wife after a failure to produce a male heir.
Her Early Life
Narriman Sadek was born…
She was the queen who tried to save her dynasty with nothing more than a bouquet of flowers. Maria Amelia saw her husband and eldest son mortally wounded at close range in an assassination that would hasten the demise of their dynasty. She had done all she could to save the monarchy she married into but it would all come to nothing as she watched another son lose his throne just years after the…
