Tulle and organdie were layered to create a cream and blush effect
It was a closely guarded secret but now we know. Lady Gabriella Windsor’s wedding dress had caused plenty of speculation ahead of her big day but in the end the only daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent chose a romantic design along classic lines for her marriage to Thomas Kingston at St. George’s Chapel…
The brides of the House of Kent have shown a penchant for pastel wedding flowers and the latest to join their number, Lady Gabriella Windsor, is no different. For her marriage to Thomas Kingston, at Windsor, Lady Ella added some colour to her petals, just as her Kent…
One of the primary things that shows a member of the Royal Family’s status is their title and style. The title is the part which precedes their name and the style is what determines how one addresses the royal. Royal titles haven’t always been as they are now.
And so we finally have it, the most talked about piece of paper in the land. Since the moment his birth was announced, the registration of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor has got everyone very excited indeed. Much of that eagerness to see the record has come from the fact that the location of his birth hadn’t been formally announced. But the place (the Portland Hospital in London) is…
The government of Eswatini has venomously denied reports that King Mswati III has ordered men in his country to take part in polygamy or face jail time.
The government has called the false accusations ‘malicious’ and ‘poisonous.’
Percy Simelane, a…
Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips was born to Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips on 15 May 1981 at St Mary’s Hospital in London. She is the younger of their two children and only daughter. Her older brother, Peter Phillips was born on 15 November 1977. She also has…
After a broken engagement a few years earlier, Princess Madeleine of Sweden finally found the love of her life after fleeing to New York City to heal her broken heart. There, through mutual friends, she met American-British financier Christopher “Chris” O’Neill.
They appeared for the first time in public together in January 2011, and the relationship might have stayed quiet…
Looking Back at the Wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
14th May 2019
Today we are going to look back at the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary which took place 15 years ago. Denmark’s Crown Prince married his Australian fiancée on a beautiful May morning at the Copenhagen Cathedral.
Crown Prince Frederik first met his…
Royal Presents at Osborne: New Exhibition to focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
12th May 2019
English Heritage celebrates the bicentenary of the births of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with a new exhibition, Royal Presents at Osborne, focusing on the unique stories behind seven gifts exchanged by the royal couple.
Osborne itself was, of course, the Queen and…
Queen Victoria’s use of perfume is a subject of interest because of what it reveals about both her personal toilette and tastes. An equivalent in scent perhaps, of that distinctive signature we know so well on paper, adding an ‘I’ for ‘Imperatrix’ after she was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. This perfume would have been part of the Queen’s daily dressing process. At Osborne, the…
