Snow has provided enjoyment for countless
generations of children and adults alike; royalty, of
course, is no exception to this time-honoured rule. English
monarchs have wintered at Windsor since the twelfth century.
Windsor Castle was the preferred royal residence in whichto spend
Christmas for Queen Victoria during Prince Albert’s lifetime,
Osborne House being chosen on occasion only…
Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was – as her name
suggests – the daughter of a King, but not by his queen. Charles
II’s queen, the Portuguese-born Catherine of Braganza, was
apparently barren and miscarried after six years of childless
marriage in 1688. This is something which…
The Royal Palace of La Almudaina (or in
Spanish, Palacio Real de La Almudaina) is located in Palma,
Mallorca (or Majorca) in the Balearic Islands and serves as
the official summer residence of the Spanish monarch and other
members of the Spanish Royal Family (even though…
At St George’s Chapel, Windsor is a
remarkable Oriel Window which has a fascinating history of its own
and a unique connection with royal weddings. The high, wooden Oriel
Window on the north side of the altar was added in the 1510s when
Henry VIII made the Edward IV Chantry into a royal pew for the use
of his first queen, Catherine of Aragon, who watched Garter
ceremonies in the Quire…
She dressed to impress, using clothes and
jewels as a way of establishing her power as she fought and
succeeded in making monarchy a woman’s job and now what’s thought
to be the only surviving gown worn by Elizabeth I is to go on
display. The silver fabric that…
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…
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 Pilane”. Here you can see the Crown
Princess, Prince Daniel, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar at Jaume
Plensa’s…
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…
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 brother, King Henry VIII, who is buried at St
George’s Chapel, Windsor – as is her husband, the Duke of Suffolk.
Had…
