It’s a striking example of royal PR at
its most dramatic and most powerful, and it’s about to go on public
display in England for the first time. The artwork, a tapestry
showing St Paul ordering the burning of heretical books, was
commissioned by King Henry VIII in the 1530s at the time of his
most famous and controversial religious reforms. Feared lost for
decades, it has now resurfaced and…
We’re already too excited about the new
documentary about the Queen set to air on ITV this week and now
there’s even more reason to look forward to it. For we’ve just
found out that the Duchess of Sussex will be answering one of the
questions still being asked about…
In the latest instalment of our autumn
series, looking at what led to the fall of various monarchies
throughout history, Royal Central looks at the end of the monarchy
in Portugal. On a chilly February day in 1908, the King of Portugal
and his family were making their way…
If there’s one thing Instagram loves just
as much as a picture of food, it’s a picture of royals so put the
two together, and wonderful things are bound to happen. The post on
the official Kensington Palace Insta account marking the launch of
the charity cookbook supported by the Duchess of Sussex grabbed
375,000 likes in its first 24 hours making it the most popular so
far this month on the…
Who was Empress Dowager Cixi - one of the most powerful women in China's history?
17th September 2018
The Qing dynasty was the last imperial
dynasty to rule China, collapsing in 1912 amid rising social and
political instability. Ruling for almost three hundred years, the
Qing dynasty was one of the largest empires in the world, trebling
the amount of land under China’s…
Some of the earliest Christmas cards to
survive in the Royal Collection date from the first half of Queen
Victoria’s reign. These were handmade by Queen Victoria’s children
and are typical of the sentimental nineteenth century; although in
the case of the Queen’s…
In the Royal Photograph Collection at
Windsor is an album which offers a uniquely personal insight into
Queen Victoria’s view of what she wanted to treasure in family
terms and what deserved special mention in a documentary way. This
is the splendid burgundy leather-bound album by Giroux, known as
the ‘Album of Important Occasions. 1837-1885’,may have been
produced later than when the…
Across the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle
is a room, clearly visible, jutting out in a pentagon shape amongst
the jigsaw of the Clarence, Queen’s, Augusta, York, and Lancaster
Towers and King George IV Gate. Part of the private apartments, it
was merely called what it…
With 2019 marking the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Queen Victoria, possibly the most symbolic objects
to commemorate this historic date, are the baby shoes thought to
have been owned by the Queen, which are preserved in the Royal
Collection and kept at the Museum of…
It should come as no surprise that one
royal has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California. No,
it is not the Hollywood royal who recently joined the British Royal
Family. Instead, it is the late American Academy Award winner,
Grace Kelly,born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1929, who became
the Princess of Monaco upon her marriage to Prince Rainier III in
1956. Grace Kelly…
