Since the outbreak of coronavirus, many
royal families have had to live their lives quite differently. The
same applies to the Swedish Royal Family. King Carl Gustav and
Queen Silvia decided to temporarily move from Stockholm Palace to
the smaller Stenhammar’s Palace. Let us take a look at this rather
unknown Swedish castle which is now the Swedish royal family
“corona”…
May Jewels: The origins of the Cambridge emeralds
15th May 2020
The British royal family has many notable
pieces of jewellery in their collection. From personal purchases to
items passed down through generations, Royal Central is taking a
look at the origins of the Cambridge emeralds. Nearly 200 years
ago, in Germany, after the…
On this day, the 14 May 1643, Louis XIV
took over the throne in France following the death of his father
King Louis XIII. Louis XIV is often called the ‘King of the Sun’,
and was born in 1638 as the eldest son of King Louis XIII and Anna
of Austria. For as…
Theirs sounds like a love affair out of a
romantic comedy: at the Slip Inn pub in Sydney, Australia, a crown
prince meets a sales executive during the Summer Olympics. He
doesn’t reveal his identity straight away, and she has no idea of
the secret he’s keeping. Then, he reveals the truth and they begin
a relationship that three years later leads to the biggest royal
wedding in Denmark in…
May Jewels: Queen Mary's Deal with a Duchess
13th May 2020
The Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara is one
of the most impressive pieces in The Queen’s tiara collection. It
is one of her favourite tiaras and is frequently worn for different
events. It is notable, not only for its sheer size and brilliance
but for the fact that it can be…
Queen Elizabeth isn’t your average
grandmother or great-grandmother, not least due to the fact she is
very tech-savvy. But did you know that Her Majesty has a top secret
Facebook account? TheMailOnlinereported that The Queen set up her
profile, which…
We all love a royal what if and perhaps
one of the most intriguing of recent times revolves around the
question of the king who renounced his throne for love. What if
Edward VIII hadn’t abdicated? Who would be Monarch now? There are
two roads to go down here. The first is that Edward VIII did give
up the woman he loved. No marriage to Mrs Simpson would leave him
free to wed someone else. Who…
As Victory in Europe was declared, on May
8th 1945, a shy man who had found himself at the centre of the
efforts to defeat the Nazis prepared to speak to millions by radio.
At his side was the wife who had played just as crucial a role
throughout World War Two. The words of…
They were the words spoken by a king as a
country looked to him for inspiration and, legend has it, they were
handed to him by the heir who would go on to make history. During
Britain’s first Christmas of World War Two in 1939, George VI
broadcast to the country and…
It is one of the most famous pictures in
royal history, a moment when a Monarch and his people were
completely united. As World War Two came to an end in Europe, King
George VI and his family stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
surrounded by the cheers of thousands. With them, the wartime Prime
Minister, Winston Churchill, whose leadership had already made him
a legend. On the 75th…

