True Royalty is highlighting their show
“The New Royals” this weekend focusing on the Fab Four: The Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge and Duke and Duchess of Sussex. After the
recent announcement that the Sussexes are suing the Mail and aired
an ITV programme, it is the perfect time to take a look at the
lives of the four most popular members of the British Royal Family.
It is a 48-minute…
The lost royal garden - on a roof: Ludwig II's Wintergarten
25th October 2019
Munich has a lost royal garden. As with
so much that surrounds the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria
(1845-1886), the myth has its roots in reality. That King who once
said of himself ‘I want to remain an eternal enigma to myself and
to others’ is now an established…
I was sent this lovely illustrated book
by a Portuguese author, Diana Del-Negro for a review. It’s a
children’s book that Del-Negro wrote and illustrated herself. She
wrote it for her five-year-old daughter, Laura, to “explain that
real princesses exist, and also…
Inside where Marie Antoinette stayed on her way to Versailles
24th October 2019
On her bridal journey across the Holy
Roman Empire to Paris and already travelling according to her new
status of Dauphine due to her first marriage ceremony by proxy,
Marie Antoinette took some two and half weeks to reach her
illustrious destination. There is a poignancy about her departure
from Vienna, for she was witnessed as stretching her neck out of
the window of her carriage to snatch the…
It’s puzzled historians for centuries but
now one of the pressing questions hanging over one of the most
famous royal artefacts in the world has an answer. And it sheds a
new light on the reign of the king it celebrates, William the
Conqueror. The conquest that gave him…
Following their attendance at the
Enthronement Ceremony of Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo, Japan, on 22
October, King Felipe and Queen Letizia flew to South Korea where
they will spend two days on a state visit. They arrived in Seoul,
South Korea on the morning of 23 October…
Whilst researching on the correspondence
of the last Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) of Russia and
Princess Marie Bariatinsky, one of the Tsarina’s first
maids-of-honour (freilina) in her early years in Russia and a later
friend, I discovered a series of unpublished letter cards in a
collection in Vienna, from the Tsarina to Princess Marie. The
five-letter cards are autographed with…
Recently there has been a remarkable
shift in the photographs shared by the royal courts. Increasingly,
the official pictures are no longer taken by professional
photographers but by members of the royal families themselves.
Photographing has become a typical “royal”…
Whilst on one of her late holidays in the
south of France, Queen Victoria made her only visit to Spain. It
was a visit that aroused the Queen’s socio-historic curiosity in
national culture and peoples, something she often gave expression
to in watercolour sketches as vivid…
This week on the Royal Central Podcast,
the debate is all about royal women. We ask whether royal women
today get enough credit for their work and take a look back at the
queens and princesses of the past to debate whether their
fascinating lives can ever be truly uncovered after centuries of
male dominated history. And do you count Jane Grey as a Queen of
England or an unlucky lady? Join Moniek…
