Queen Sirikit is the Queen Mother in Thailand, having married the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950 shortly before his coronation; sadly she has not been seen much in public recently following a stroke in 2012. She was born on 12th August 1932, at the home of her maternal grandfather, Lord Vongsanuprabhand. Her father, Prince Nakkhatra Mangala was a diplomat in Thailand and at the time was on…
Europe Editor, Brittani Barger gives her opinion on the top ten tiaras across the globe:
10: Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s Wedding Tiara
I just love the simplicity of this piece, which fits so well with Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s personality. She wore it…
Before they were royal: The life of Crown Princess Masako of Japan
10th August 2018
She is set to become Japan’s next Empress in May 2019, but today we take a look at the life of Crown Princess Masako of Japan before she married Crown Prince Naruhito.
Born Masako Owada on 9 December 1963 at theToranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, she is the…
Thomas Markle was catapulted into the spotlight when his daughter, Meghan began dating Prince Harry and even more when it was announced that they would marry. We’ve since seen him stage photographs and fake surgery so he wouldn’t have to attend the wedding. And let’s not even mention the antics of his other daughter Samantha, who has confirmed that she is basically milking the…
Antony Armstrong-Jones was born on the 7th March 1930, the son of barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones and his first wife Anne Messel, in Belgravia, London. It is perhaps his mother’s lineage that later led to his creative side, Oliver Messel the stage designer was a maternal…
The Eleanor’s Cross at Hardingstone in Northampton is a monument to medieval love. It’s one of a dozen crosses built on the orders of King Edward I in memory of his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. Constructed between 1291 and 1294 at the places her coffin had…
The visit of the future Tsar Nicholas II to Queen Victoria in the summer of 1894 has a fabled quality; it took place a mere two months after his engagement to Princess Alix of Hesse in Coburg.
This visit has a special poignancy when viewed through later eyes; we know of course, that far from enjoying a period as Tsarevich and Tsarevna of Russia, Nicholas and Alix would, in fact, marry in November…
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, or Mabel of Orange as she is known in her daily life, is today world widely praised for her work for children’s rights and as a global power broker. The wife of the late Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau is the mother of two girls.
Queen Victoria began her journal in 1832 at the age of thirteen and continued to keep it until old age, with the last entry made just nine days before she died, constituting, therefore, a remarkable royal record. She took her journal with her wherever she went on her…
This year marks 25 years since King Baudouin of Belgium unexpectedly died while on holiday in Spain. He was the sixth King of the Belgians and at the same time one of the most popular kings Belgium ever had. King Baudouin reigned from 1951 until his death in 1993. However, there was one day during his reign that the government declared the King unable to rule. In 1990, there was one day in which…
