The brides of the House of Kent have
shown a penchant for pastel wedding flowers and the latest to join
their number, Lady Gabriella Windsor, is no different. For her
marriage to Thomas Kingston, at Windsor, Lady Ella added some
colour to her petals, just as her Kent relatives have done in the
past. And it all looked picture perfect as a result. The bride
chose a selection of cream and palest…
One of the primary things that shows a
member of the Royal Family’s status is their title and style. The
title is the part which precedes their name and the style is what
determines how one addresses the royal. Royal titles haven’t always
been as they are now.
And so we finally have it, the most
talked about piece of paper in the land. Since the moment his birth
was announced, the registration of Archie Harrison
Mountbatten-Windsor has got everyone very excited indeed. Much of
that eagerness to see the record has come from the…
The government of Eswatini has venomously
denied reports that King Mswati III has ordered men in his country
to take part in polygamy or face jail time. The government has
called the false accusations ‘malicious’ and ‘poisonous.’ Percy
Simelane, a spokesman from the government, stated to Times Live,
“His Majesty has not made any pronouncement to that effect as it
has…
Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips was born to
Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips on 15 May 1981 at St
Mary’s Hospital in London. She is the younger of their two children
and only daughter. Her older brother, Peter Phillips was born on 15
November 1977. She also has…
After a broken engagement a few years
earlier, Princess Madeleine of Sweden finally found the love of her
life after fleeing to New York City to heal her broken heart.
There, through mutual friends, she met American-British financier
Christopher “Chris”…
Looking Back at the Wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
14th May 2019
Today we are going to look back at the
wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary which took
place 15 years ago. Denmark’s Crown Prince married his Australian
fiancée on a beautiful May morning at the Copenhagen Cathedral.
Crown Prince Frederik first met his future wife, Mary Donaldson, in
Sydney while he was there for the 2000 Olympic Games. They met at
the Slip Inn Bar, and the…
English Heritage celebrates the
bicentenary of the births of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
with a new exhibition, Royal Presents at Osborne, focusing on the
unique stories behind seven gifts exchanged by the royal couple.
Osborne itself was, of course, the Queen and…
Queen Victoria’s use of perfume is a
subject of interest because of what it reveals about both her
personal toilette and tastes. An equivalent in scent perhaps, of
that distinctive signature we know so well on paper, adding an ‘I’
for ‘Imperatrix’ after she was…
The Balmoral Castle, Queen Victoria’s
beloved Highland home and still Scottish home to the British Royal
Family since 1852 when it was purchased for the Queen by Prince
Albert, having been leased in 1848, some six years after the Queen
and Prince’s first visit to Scotland, in 1842. The architect chosen
for the rebuilding of Balmoral was William Smith, City Architect of
Aberdeen and the…
