In the summer of 1894, the Tsarevich
Nicholas came to England as a guest of Queen Victoria, first
staying for a brief few days with his fiancée, Princess Alix of
Hesse, at Walton-on-Thames before continuing to Windsor Castle.
This was a blissful period for a young couple who were deeply in
love, having become engaged at Coburg on 8 April 1894. During his
stay at Windsor, the Tsarevich paid a…
Starting off July on a busy note,
Princess Anne had two engagements in West Cumbria earlier this
week. The Princess Royal opened The Whitehaven Campus, which
combines Mayfield School with St Benedict’s Catholic High School. A
£30 million campus, the site had opened…
In honour of The Queen’s Holyrood Week,
we’re taking a look at royal history in and around Edinburgh. Our
senior reporter Kristin Contino headed to Scotland to find out more
about some favourite royal spots. “Britannia is the one place where
I can truly relax,”…
They were an unexpected king and queen
and their royal romance has weathered several storms but today King
Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium will mark their sixtieth
wedding anniversary. The couple, who married on July 2nd 1959 in
Brussels, will celebrate surrounded by family and friends. As they
become the first Belgian monarchs to reach a Diamond wedding
anniversary, Royal Central looks…
Northampton Museums own a pair of flat
shoes, believed to be those worn by Queen Victoria on her wedding
day, 10 February 1840. Of white satin, they certainly would have
complimented the Queen’s own simple wedding dress of finely woven
Spitalfields silk satin in her own…
Recently, people have complained that the
Duchess of Sussex appears to have altered her engagement ring. To
them, she has changed a “piece of history”, adding that as such
it’s not fashion that should be changed. I’m going to have to
respectfully disagree with this.
The Duchess of Cambridge was beaming on
Tuesday when she stepped out with youngsters from Action for
Children, to attend a photographic workshop held by the Royal
Photographic Society. The event was timed to coincide with the
announcement from Kensington Palace, that Kate, will take over as
royal patron for the organisation, a role previously held, by Her
Majesty The Queen, for the last 67…
The Queen had a good Ascot and so did the
bookies, thanks in part to the now customary practice of predicting
the colour of the royal hat in carriage number one. Betting on the
Queen’s choice of topper is as much a part of Ascot as the royal
procession itself and this…
The history of the monarchy in the
British Isles has been littered with iconic and fabled reigns of
kings. From the legendary conquest of England by William of
Normandy in 1066 to the stoic courageousness of King George VI
during World War II, the monarchy in the United…
As she celebrated her twentieth wedding
anniversary with a day out at Royal Ascot with her husband, it
appeared that the Countess of Wessex was paying her own tribute to
her famous day as a royal bride. For Sophie was in white and black
on her big anniversary, just as she was two decades ago when she
said ‘I do’ at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. Embed from Getty
Images As she…
