The Quire of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
is an area extraordinarily rich in the history of the English
Monarchy, yet this sacred and mystical space in the Chapel
enshrining the Order of the Garter – the Order’s spiritual home –
is as much associated with royal weddings as well as royal burial.
The marble floor of the Quire carries with it quite literally, the
strata of centuries and…
From the roof, you can see Windsor
Castle, but that’s not nearly the most regal thing about Cliveden
in Buckinghamshire where Meghan Markle will spend the night before
her marriage to Prince Harry. This palatial house, owned by the
National Trust and leased as a hotel…
All Fine on the Day: a look at past royal weddings which have turned out well despite problems
16th May 2018
Being part of a royal family may be a
privilege but it does not protect its members from the worries and
woes that beset everyone else. Weddings are famously fraught with
difficulties, as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are discovering.
Perhaps they can take comfort from the…
On 21 September 1662, Samuel Pepys
entered the following words into his Restoration diary: “The Queen
coming by in her coach, going to her chappell at St. James’s (the
first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after her, and I
got up to the room where her closet is; and there stood and saw the
fine altar, ornaments, and the fryers in their habits, and the
priests come in with their…
If ever a royal wedding dress summed up
its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie Rhys-Jones for her
marriage to Prince Edward on 19 June 1999 at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Subtle, elegant and classic, this was the final Windsor
bridal dress of the 20th century and it…
If you were secretly hoping that the new
Lifetime movie – Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance – would be good,
I’m sorry to burst your bubble. The Crown it is not. There’s always
an element of camp to Lifetime movies. The genre was basically
built for it, and A Royal…
Truth be told, I’ve always been Team
Doria. When we were all still wondering who would walk Meghan
Markle down the aisle at the Royal Wedding I was hoping that her
mum, Doria Ragland, would be included in the party making its way
through St. George’s Chapel…
With just days to go until the Royal
Wedding, we’re getting a feel for how Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle will mix modern and traditional for their marriage at St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 19th. And there are plenty of royal
traditions for them to think…
The portrait by the Parisian painter
Jean-Marc Nattier of the 17-year-old Princess Isabella of Parma,
(1741-1763) – the best known that was made of her – seems in some
ways to symbolise her short life. Today it is kept in the vast
collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the city of
Isabella’s imperial marriage. The painting is stored in the Gallery
Depot and is not…
