Extraordinary times and extraordinary
questions. For much of her 67 year reign, the Queen has done what
every monarch in recent times has done and remained removed from
politics. But in the past month, Her Majesty has been drawn into a
maelstrom that has ended with the highest court in the UK ruling
that her Prime Minister gave her unlawful advice when he told her
to prorogue parliament as the sun…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex begin
their ten day tour of southern Africa later today. The royal couple
will arrive with their four month old son, Archie. Harry and Meghan
will settle their little one into his temporary home before
beginning their official diary. Royal…
Ahead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s
tour of South Africa later this month, Royal Central looks back at
the work Diana, Princess of Wales did with the Halo Trust in
Angola. It was the 15th of January 1997, and Diana, Princess of
Wales was nervous. She’d swapped…
From Vienna to Versailles: the last, romantic days of Marie Antoinette's bridal procession
21st September 2019
All this week, Royal Central’s Elizabeth
Jane Timms has been telling the story of Marie Antoinette’s bridal
procession as she made her way to her new home in France. Today,
she reaches the end of the story and that first, fateful meeting
between Marie Antoinette and her groom: On 14 May, the procession
reached Compiegne. The first meeting between Marie Antoinette and
Dauphin…
Princess Margriet attends the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem
21st September 2019
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and
her husband Pieter van Vollenhoven attended the commemoration of
the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem last night. Princess
Margriet/Photo by Moniek Bloks Pieter van Vollenhoven and Ahmed
Marcouch/ Photo by Moniek…
Vienna to Versailles: inside the bridal procession of Marie Antoinette
20th September 2019
Earlier this week, Elizabeth Jane Timms
took Royal Central readers into the heart of the story of how Marie
Antoinette became a royal bride. Now she continues the story of her
bridal procession, which took Marie Antoinette from Vienna to
Versailles….. The first stop…
Daughter of Saudi King found guilty of ordering assault on French worker in Paris
20th September 2019
Last week, a Paris court found Princess
Hassa bint Salman Al Saud guilty of ordering her bodyguard to beat
up a French worker in 2016. The Princess was not present at court,
where she was found guilty of violence and complicity to hold
someone against their will. Princess Hassa was handed a ten-month
suspended sentence and fined €10,000. An international arrest
warrant was issued for her in…
Duchess of Cambridge appears on Blue Peter with young Back to Nature design winner
20th September 2019
The Duchess of Cambridge appeared on
Thursday evening’s episode of the CBBC television show Blue Peter
to reveal the winner of her Back to Nature contest and tour the RHS
Wisley garden with the winner and runners up. The contest,
announced during Kate’s last…
While all anniversaries are special to
the couple involved, some get far more attention than others. The
biggies, the landmarks, the ones ending in a 5 or a zero usually
get everyone reminiscing and that’s never more true than with a
royal wedding. In 2019, regal…
It was a marriage that sealed a famous
love story and turned a princess into a queen. On September 18th
1964, royalty from across Europe gathered in Athens to see the
continent’s newest monarch wed a bride who had just turned
eighteen. Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark’s
romance has since weathered political crises and exile – here’s a
look back at a very royal wedding…
