Queen Victoria’s love of dogs provided
the inspiration for royal sculpture and painting, as well, of
course, the Queen’s journal entries. References to her dogs abound
throughout. Interestingly, her life may in one way, be charted
through her dogs, because they were with her from her youth until
literally the very end. It was a dog that was with her as a young
princess at Kensington and a dog…
Royal Central’s Editor-in-Chief Charlie
Proctor says it is high time we stop treating members of The Royal
Family as celebrities and to instead consider them in the same
light as any politicians or statespersons. What does the Duchess of
Cambridge and Kim Kardashian…
She would go on to live a life of royal
duties which led her to be called one of the unsung heroes of the
Royal Family, but today we take a look at the life of the Duchess
of Gloucester before she married The Queen’s cousin: Prince
Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Born…
On 25 June 1900, Victoria, Princess Louis
of Battenberg – born Princess Victoria of Hesse – gave birth to a
son at Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park, the erstwhile
residence of Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent, until
her death in 1861. Princess Louis of Battenberg had been the
firstborn child of Queen Victoria’s second daughter, Princess
Alice, Grand Duchess of…
Princess Alix of Hesse visited Malta in
1890. Little would appear to have been recorded about it, although
it is possible to piece together some details of the trip from
surviving accounts, biographies by those that personally knew her
and from extracts of letters she wrote…
Spain’s Leonor, Princess of Asturias is
unrecognisable on her first coin that has been issued by the Royal
Mint of Spain for the 1300 Anniversary of the Kingdom of Asturias.
The coin is also in celebration of Spain’s firstproclamation of the
Picos de Europa as a…
Although Sarah, Duchess York is no longer
married to Prince Andrew she remains a familiar face in royal
circles. Once described as “the breath of fresh air” of the
Royal Family, this Duchess was once a tomboyish country girl. Here,
we take a look at the early years of Sarah Ferguson. Sarah Margaret
Ferguson was born in London on 15 October 1959 to parents Susan and
Major Ronald…
Biography is also made up of people in
the background; so it is with William Howley, Archbishop of
Canterbury. The appearances he made in the life of the future Queen
Victoria were of extreme significance, in a way that was unique,
and whilst these functions formed a natural…
Princess Alix of Hesse – as the Tsarina
Alexandra Feodorovna was known before her marriage to the young
Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 – visited Cumberland Lodge in Windsor
Great Park on several occasions, as the residence of her maternal
aunt, Princess Helena of…
A royal wedding just wouldn’t be a royal
wedding without a tiara or three. But when the then Princess
Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh on November 20th 1947, she
almost missed out on wearing the diadem on which she’d set her
heart. For just before the bride was set to leave for Westminster
Abbey, her tiara snapped in two. The diamond disaster happened as
the future Queen was…
