There have been many royals to grace the
cover of magazines – the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of
Sussex, Diana, Princess of Wales and Princess Eugenie just to name
a few. However, it was the Princess Royal who became a regular
cover star for Vogue in the 1970s. In 1971, the Princess did a
shoot to mark her 21st birthday with photos being taken by Norman
Parkinson. The Princess…
Queen Margrethe has celebrated a few
milestones on the Danish throne. A Silver Jubilee in 1997; a Ruby
Jubilee in 2012. If she is still on the throne in 2022, she will
mark her Golden Jubilee. And having ascended to the throne at the
age of 32, Queen Margrethe has marked a…
To mark the 60th birthday of the King of
the Belgians, join the Royal Central team for a special podcast.
From first born son of one of the most glamourous royal couples in
Europe to unsure heir and popular monarch, Brittani Barger, Moniek
Bloks and Lydia Starbuck discuss…
[getty src=”542259040″ width=”594″
height=”396″ tld=”ca”] Prince Philippe and Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz
made a surprising announcement in September 1999: they had been in
a secret relationship and were now engaged to be married. Mathilde,
a member of the Belgian nobility, would eventually become the first
Belgian-born Queen of the…
This month, the Queen of Denmark
celebrates her 80th birthday. While celebrations will take place
later in the year, owing to the coronavirus outbreak, as Margrethe
reaches this major milestone, her remarkable life and reign are
again in the spotlight. Today, let’s take a…
At the end of February, an air of
excitement surrounded the famous Abbey Road Studios in London; Jon
Bon Jovi was re-recording a single, but this time with a very
special guest in attendance… The re-recording of Bon Jovi’s song
‘Unbroken’, with the Invictus Games…
Today, let’s take a look at Queen
Margrethe’s life as she prepared to be a queen. We’re looking back
at her life from 1959 to 1971, just before her January 1972
accession to the throne. [getty src=”558631203″ width=”492″
height=”594″ tld=”ca”] Nineteen-year-old Princess Margrethe (right)
with her younger sisters Anne-Marie…
In a two-part documentary about the
Swedish Royal Jewels, both Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria
have spoken about wearing some of the oldest and most precious
jewellery in the world. The Queen and Crown Princess of Sweden also
revealed their favourite tiaras. Her…
This year, in 2020, marks 75 years since
World War II ended. It’s also 80 years since war came to the
monarchies of Norway and Denmark. While the Danish royal family was
taken prisoner by the Germans, the Norwegian royal family managed
to escape from the Germans and…
When the Prince of Wales and the Duchess
of Cornwall announced their engagement in February 2005 they wasted
no time in setting a date or venue for their marriage. They
immediately told the world they would marry in April that year in a
civil ceremony at Windsor Castle followed by a service of blessing
at St. George’s Chapel later the same day. Yet just a week later,
they had to move their civil…
