“The dedicated efforts of Elephant Family
are helping to highlight and resolve the issues faced by Asia’s
vulnerable elephants. Not only are these magnificent animals
trapped in a daily battle for food, water and space with an
ever-expanding human population, but they also face the increasing
threat of being killed for their skin to supply a growing illegal
market. Elephant Family’s work…
In May 1894, Princess Alix of Hesse
undertook a cure in the fashionable Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate
for sciatica. She had become engaged to Tsarevich Nicholas of
Russia at Coburg the previous month. Whilst she stayed at
Harrogate, she regularly corresponded with her…
The earliest memories of a historical
personage are extraordinarily important, as not only do they reveal
first consciousness of their world and circumstances but crucially,
what they remembered first. They tell snippets of true events, as
they saw them. Of course, we know…
On 16 March 1861, Queen Victoria’s
mother, the Duchess of Kent, died at Frogmore House, the private
residence in Windsor Great Park which she had often used, living
there for approximately two decades. After her death, the summer
house she had planned during her lifetime was converted into a
mausoleum on two levels, built on a mound overlooking the lake. The
lower level contains the burial…
As D-Day took place, King George VI spoke
to the people of Britain and the Empire it still retained. His
speech was set to inspire, to comfort and to look to the future
with determination as World War Two entered a new phase, one which
he himself referred to as ‘a…
Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco expected to take baccalaureate regional exams at public school
3rd June 2019
Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan of Morocco,
16, is expected to take his baccalaureate regional exams at a
public school, according to Moroccan media. It was reported that
His Royal Highness would take exams at the Dar Essalam public high
school, according to anonymous sources…
Was Queen Victoria a Victorian? The
question is a complex and fascinating one to answer. In the
immediate response, Victoria would seem to typify what it meant to
be ‘Victorian’ because her long reign straddled the nineteenth
century, and the age was accordingly named after her. It begs then
the further question of what a Victorian was if Queen Victoria
wasn’t one, as well as…
The name of Miss M. Hope Robson belongs
to that both visible and invisible host of British royal nannies
and governesses which appeared at the royal courts of Europe in the
nineteenth century, known to their charges but in some cases,
almost forgotten to biography.
Aged 10 ¾ years old, Princess Victoria
composed a story. This delightful children’s tale, written by the
future Queen, survives in its own little red ‘Composition’ notebook
in the Royal Archives. To understand how it was made and the full
significance of it, we need…
Queen Victoria is for many, synonymous
with the notion of afternoon tea, probably because the social
ceremony became properly established during the later years of her
reign. The Queen’s evident love of tea, however, reaches back much
further than this elegant ritual. Indeed, the word occurs 7,587
times in the various typescripts or edited copies of her journal,
proving it was part of her…
