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 was…
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…
Six snapshots of Prince Charles during his two day visit to Northumberland
14th September 2018
One royal, two days, six snapshots. The
Prince of Wales has spent the past forty eight hours in
Northumberland and his packed itinerary has included engagements
linked to conservation, religion and community support. It’s been
busy and bursting with fun so here are six…
With Prince Philip a young 97 year old,
it is hard to imagine a world without him. Even harder to believe
what is what it would be like if his younger wife, Her Majesty
The Queen, coming in at 92 years old was to die before him.
However, anything is possible, so what would…
The Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace has
provided the setting for many historical events, most particularly
royal weddings and christenings, most recently that of HRH Prince
George of Cambridge in 2013; it is only ever open to the public for
religious services. To enter the Chapel Royal though is to walk in
the footsteps of at least four royal brides and to process up its
aisle is to retrace…
In Prince & Patron, the Summer Opening
Exhibition at Buckingham Palace, a bust of Prince Albert is
displayed, labelled simply as ‘William Theed (1804-91) Prince
Albert, 1862; marble.’ But it is no ordinary bust, nor is it just
one among other memorial busts commissioned…
An exquisite oil on panel painting by
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, that fashionable artist of European
court portraiture, is currently on display in Prince & Patron, the
Summer Opening Exhibition of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace,
showcasing some of the personal…
Philippe d’Auvergne’s life was that of a
great adventurer. In his life, he rose through the ranks of the
Royal Navy, saw service in the American Revolution, earned the
confidence of an ageing duke, led the defence of his homeland
against the barbarity of the French Revolution, funded the royalist
cause, and marched with his contingent at the Battle of Waterloo.
His is a life that is barely…
