At St George’s Chapel, Windsor is a remarkable Oriel Window
which has a fascinating history of its own and a unique connection with royal
weddings.
The high, wooden Oriel Window on the north side of the altar was added in the 1510s when Henry VIII made the Edward IV Chantry into a royal pew for the use of his first queen, Catherine of Aragon, who watched Garter ceremonies in the Quire…
She dressed to impress, using clothes and jewels as a way of establishing her power as she fought and succeeded in making monarchy a woman’s job and now what’s thought to be the only surviving gown worn by Elizabeth I is to go on display. The silver fabric that…
A plaque can be found in the garrison walls at Portsmouth at the
location of the old ‘Sally Port’. Its patriotic inscription proclaimsthat
“from this place naval heroes innumerable were embarked to fight their
country’s battles” but that also, “near this…
The Crown Princess Family of Sweden has shared some of their summer holiday snaps on the Royal Family’s social media networks. The images were taken by Crown Princess Victoria.
At Tjörn the family visited, among other things, the sculpture park “Sculpture in Pilane”. Here you can see the Crown Princess, Prince Daniel, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar at Jaume Plensa’s…
A fourteenth-century Anglican church in the Somerset parish of Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge is not perhaps the place where you might expect to find several remnants from the lost Palace of Whitehall, the main London residence of England’s monarchs until 1698. A second…
The sixteenth century late-GothicSint-Andrieskerk on the Augustijnenstraat
in Antwerp preserves a monument with a quite extraordinary royal connection,
for which reason many English visitors in particular, seek it out.In
1513,Augustine friars established a…
Located in the beautiful Gothic church of St Mary’s at Bury St Edmunds,
is the tomb of a princess of England and a brief queen of France, the thirdwife
of Louis XII. The wife, daughter and sister of kings, she does not rest in the
same royal burial place as her brother, King Henry VIII, who is buried at St
George’s Chapel, Windsor – as is her husband, the Duke of Suffolk. Had…
Charlie Proctor explains why The Queen could soon be appointing her 15th Prime Minister, and it might not be one of the usual suspects.
Boris Johnson has only been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for two weeks, and in that time he has already broken a political…
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died in prison.
According to the BBC, the disgraced financier killed himself in his Manhattan cell just a few hours after new court documents were opened.
Epstein was facing federal sex trafficking charges in New York. His…
Have a look at the photos on this page. For decades, royal children
have been caught on camera acting like, well, children. The moment that Princess
Charlotte stuck her tongue out while accompanying her parents to the King’s Cup
in aid of eight of their charities and patronages has become a major talking
point. But she’s actually just added another chapter to a royal story already
filled with…
