‘Never, never can I forget this brilliant
year… so full of marvellous kindness, loyalty & devotion of so many
millions which I really could hardly have expected’. (Quoted in
Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria, A Personal History, 379). With
these words, Queen Victoria made the final entry in her great
journal for the year 1887 – that of her Golden Jubilee. She had
written in her…
The Duchess of Sussex pulled a style
surprise on her wedding day when she chose an all but forgotten
royal tiara as the finishing touch to her bridal outfit. Meghan’s
pick has put Queen Mary’s Bandeau Tiara back in the regal spotlight
and reignited interest in the set of…
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…
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 during her 2001 wedding, and it fit in
seamlessly with Mette-Marit’s simple dress and little makeup.
Thebandeau…
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…
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 uncle, and relatives further back
included a cartoonist for Punch magazine and a Berlin architect.
Antony did not have the…
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…
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. Mabel’s extraordinary career did not start
when she married the son of then Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
but upon…
