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 spot, Catharine of Braganza landed in state,
May 14 1662 previous to her marriage with Charles II at the Domus
Dei a week…
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…
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 chapel and a convent the
following year, but as the chapel itself proved too small, plans
for a larger building were…
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…
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 body was discovered at 07:30
local time. The Epstein case has long lingered over the Duke of
York who had been named in court…
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…
Continuing our summer series on the lines
of succession to the world’s monarchies, we are looking at the line
of succession to the Jordanian throne, which operates under agnatic
primogeniture. Specifically, the line of succession is governed by
Article 28 of…
As part of the ‘Great European Tour’ of
the Mozart family, which began from Salzburg in June 1763 and
extended across the Holy Roman Empire to France, the
Netherlands and Switzerland until November 1766, there
was a long visit to London from April 1764 until 1 August 1765. The
Mozart family arrived in London fresh from their stay in Paris,
arriving in England at Dover. Our best account…
