Tributes have been paid to royal reporter Kjell Arne Totland who has died at the age of 74 following a short illness.
Totland, who was royal correspondent for Norwegian TV station TV 2, regularly appeared in the media across the globe to offer commentary on The Royal Family of Norway, as well as royals from across Europe.
The respected broadcaster and journalist died in the early hours of…
Royal Relations: how Elizabeth II is linked to King Willem-Alexander
7th August 2019
Her Majesty The Queen is related to many of Europe’s sovereigns, not in the least because of Queen Victoria’s matchmaking but also because of another woman, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.
Princess Carolina was born on28 February 1743 as the daughter…
The gallery of so-called ‘Windsor Beauties’ is the name given to the collection
of portraits painted by Sir Peter Lely (1618-80) of celebrated courtesans and
women of the nobility in Restoration England, which can be seen – and indeed,
still admired – in the…
A building in the Oxford suburb of Marston preserves a unique connection with the lost world of imperial Russia. Its typical late-Victorian exterior belies the remarkable nature of its hidden history. In this building for a period of time, personal possessions once owned by the Russian Imperial Family were carefully preserved and stored, because they came with the belongings of the person who…
The Archduchess
Maria Antonia of Austria – Mariabeing an establishedHabsburg prefix
given to all the daughters of Empress Maria Theresia to mark the dynasty’s
special veneration for The Virgin Mary – was born as the 15thchild of
Maria Theresia on 2…
On 6 July 1893, another royal wedding was celebrated at the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace, between Prince George of Wales – created Duke of York in 1892 – and Princess Mary of Teck, the future George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary of Teck had been betrothed in…
The use of perfume can be traced back to the world’s most ancient civilisations, notably Mesopotamia and Egypt. It flourished during the Italian Renaissance and the personal perfumer of the French Queen Catherine de’ Medici Rene the Florentine, brought his perfumes with him to France in the 16th century where the art was popularised under her patronage. Catherine de’ Medici’s perfumers…
This summer, we are taking a look at the various lines of successions in the world’s monarchies. Today, we are focusing on the sixteen people in line to the Monégasque throne.
There was a major change to the Constitution of Monaco in 2002 regarding the line of…
Jane Seymour was the only one of Henry VIII’s queens to share a grave with him, but the tomb is not what Henry VIII originally intended. The King had planned an impressive monument, to include a recumbent statue of his most “entirely beloved” Queen Jane, a tomb which…
The fourth day of August turned out to be a very good one for the House of Windsor. Two of its most famous women made their debut on that date. They joined a rather interesting list of people with regal connections who celebrated birthdays then. As the royal bunting comes out once more for the Duchess of Sussex’s celebrations, here’s a look at those born on August 4th.
Birth of the…
