Prince Maurice of Battenberg was Queen
Victoria’s grandson, as he was the son of Victoria’s daughter,
Princess Beatrice and her husband, Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg was born at Balmoral Castle in 1891
and grew up in Great Britain. His elder sister, Princess Victoria
Eugenie of Battenberg married Alfonso XIII of Spain and was Queen
Consort of Spain between 1906 and…
In the northern end of the gardens at
Frogmore is a small building, the so-called Gothic Ruin. We know
that Queen Victoria used her brick and tiled Tea House in which to
breakfast, write, sit and take tea. She often worked outdoors on
her papers in a tent set up close to the…
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…
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 to wear this all…
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 with…
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…
