Nine royal houses have ruled England
since the Norman Conquest in 1066 and all of them have made their
mark. But eight have seen their power pass elsewhere and this
summer Royal Central is looking at what happened to those that have
now faded into history. At the start of the 20th century, a new
name was carved into British royal history but its end came far
sooner than anyone predicted. In our…
Nine royal houses have ruled England
since the Norman Conquest in 1066 and all of them have made their
mark. But eight have seen their power pass elsewhere and this
summer Royal Central is looking at what happened to those that have
now faded into history. Today we look at a…
Consigned to Sotheby’s London auction
Russian Works of Art, Faberge & Icons on 5 June 2018, was a quite
remarkable object offering unique insight into the private gifts of
the last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. I ‘discovered’
its existence whilst…
At Hughenden, the Buckinghamshire manor
and former home of Benjamin Disraeli, arguably Queen Victoria’s
favourite Prime Minister, is a room with a poignant link to the
family of the Queen’s second daughter, Princess Alice, Grand
Duchess of Hesse. The story behind this link is a hidden one, told
only by two photographs to be seen on the desk of the Drawing Room
although the Drawing Room in…
In the entrance hall of Frogmore House in
Windsor Great Park is a sculpture of a royal child, remarkable in
the sensitivity of its execution and the fineness of its detail. It
may seem on first glance no more than a sentimental monument made
to memorialise a beloved child…
Nine royal houses have ruled England
since the Norman Conquest in 1066 and all of them have made their
mark. But eight have seen their power pass elsewhere and this
summer Royal Central is looking at what happened to those that have
now faded into history. Today we look at a…
It is fitting that this Hessian
granddaughter of Queen Victoria was christened ‘Irene’ – a name
meaning “peace” – an appropriate choice in more ways than one, as
her character and the circumstances of her birth would prove.
Perhaps one of Princess Alice’s surviving daughters about which
least is known, she was destined to outlive all her immediate
family, dying in 1953. Princess…
One is the longest reigning monarch in
Europe, the other is the newest king on the continent. But while
their reigns started sixty years apart, Elizabeth II and Felipe VI
have a linked history with roots in centuries past. The pair share
several blood lines with ties to two…
Nine royal houses have ruled England
since the Norman Conquest in 1066 and all of them have made their
mark. But eight have seen their power pass elsewhere and this
summer Royal Central is looking at what happened to those that have
now faded into history. We now reach…
In the British Museum, there is a locket
containing hair traditionally said to be that of Marie Antoinette,
Queen of France and Navarre. Donated to the museum as part of the
Hull Grundy Gift (Gere, Charlotte; Rudoe, Judy; Tait, Hugh; Wilson,
The Art of the Jeweller, A Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift to the
British Museum, Vol 1-2, London, BMP, 1984), the locket was
formerly held at the…
