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 centuries…
A plaque can be found in the garrison
walls at Portsmouth at the location of the old ‘Sally Port’. Its
patriotic inscription proclaims that “from this place naval
heroes innumerable were embarked to fight their country’s battles”
but that also, “near this spot…
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…
The sixteenth century
late-Gothic Sint-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…
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 third wife of Louis XII. The
wife, daughter and sister of kings, she does not rest in the same
royal burial place as her brother…
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 record, not that it is an accolade
he wanted to achieve. After only 11 days in office, the new PM lost
a by-election faster than…
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…
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 the Constitution of Jordan. Only mentally sound
men who are Muslim who were born to Muslim parents and are
legitimate descendants of King…
