With a slimmed-down 2020 National Day
ahead, we are taking a look at previous National Day celebrations
in Sweden with the Royal Family. The females in the family always
dress in the traditional Swedish dress and the family rides in
carriages to Skansen for a concert. They later host a reception at
the Royal Palace, which is officially opened for the summer by a
member of the family earlier in…
Pearls are the birthstone of June and
they’ve formed parts of royal jewel collections for centuries.
Today let’s look at some of the best pearl tiaras in the Dutch
Royal Family’s collection! Antique Pearl Tiara [getty
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While King Henry VIII lived, his greatest
fear was dying without a male heir to the throne. As it turns out,
he needn’t have worried, for when he died in 1547, King Henry was
succeeded by his son Edward VI. But the new King Edward was very
frail and sickly boy of nine, and…
Each year, Buckingham Palace holds three
garden parties in May, allowing ordinary citizens the opportunity
to rub shoulders with royalty. While this year’s events were
cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic, Royal Central is
sharing the history behind Queen Elizabeth’s ‘favourite’ royal
event. Each May, Buckingham Palace throws open the gates and allows
30,000 specially…
Princess Birgitta of Sweden has always
known how to make her mark. The second sister of King Carl XVI
Gustaf is known for her originality and her wedding was stand out,
too, for several reasons. Birgitta was the only one of her siblings
to marry a fellow royal and the only…
Prince Joachim, the 28-year-old nephew of
King Philippe of the Belgians, has tested positive for the
Coronavirus after attending a private party in Spain last Tuesday.
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width=”594″ height=”408″ tld=”com”] At 8:18 p.m. on 8 August 1988,
Princess Beatrice was born at the Portland Hospital in London, the
same hospital where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would welcome
their son, Archie in 2019. Four days after the Princess’s birth,
her parents introduced her to the…
All Fine on the Day: a look at past royal weddings which have turned out well despite problems
29th May 2020
On the day Princess Beatrice was supposed
to marry her fiancé EdoardoMapelli Mozzi, Jane Dismore takes a look
back at other royal weddings which faced problems, but turned out
fine in the end. Being part of a royal family may be a privilege
but it does not protect…
His Majesty King Rama V of Siam,
present-day Thailand, also called King Chulalongkorn, was born in
1853 and died in 1910. As a fifteen-year-old, Chulalongkorn
ascended the Siamese throne, but because of his young age, his
uncle acted as his guardian. During his five years…
Today’s Royal History Mystery focuses on
the fate of one of medieval England’s most famous royal mistresses.
What happened to The Fair Rosamund? Much of Rosamund Clifford’s
life is now the stuff of legend and folklore but, in her time, she
was England’s greatest beauty and Eleanor of Aquitaine’s greatest
nemesis. John William Waterhouse / Public domain Rosamund Clifford
may have…
