Catherine Elizabeth Middleton. Perhaps
one of the most famous women in the world. You may know her as the
Duchess of Cambridge but chances are you probably refer to her as
“Kate.” While her legal name is “Catherine” and that’s how she
signs official documents, why has her nickname stayed? One reason
some may still call her Kate is because it’s what the…
The historic Villa des Cèdres in
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, once the summer home of Belgian royalty, has
sold for a jaw-dropping 200 million Euro this month to an
unspecified buyer. The 18,000-square-foot property was built in
1830 and operated as an olive tree farm until…
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…
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 would have been made more
painful by the knowledge of the King’s illegitimate children, for
example, those by Barbara…
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…
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 was once used by Gloriana herself
will be on show at Hampton Court Palace from this autumn. The cloth
in question spent…
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…
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 fire destroyed most of Whitehall,
with the exception of Inigo Jones’s magnificent neo-classical
Palladian-style Banqueting…
