Catherine of Braganza has gone down in
history as a rather nice lady who liked drinking tea. The
Portuguese princess who arrived in Portsmouth in 1662 to marry
Charles II has been portrayed as a gentle soul whose heart was
broken by her inability to have children and who instead contented
herself by making a nice cuppa the fashion of the day while trying
to be friends with her husband’s many…
The artworks by the fashionable German
portrait painter and historical artist Friedrich August von
Kaulbach (1860-1920) of Princess Alix of Hesse, later Tsarina
Alexandra Feodorovna and her elder sister, Elisabeth Feodorovna,
‘Ella’ Grand Duchess Sergei of Russia…
It was 4 August 1982. The IRA had
recently set off bombs in Regent’s Park and Hyde Park, and just a
few weeks before that, the infamous Michael Fagan
incident occurred, when a man managed to break into Buckingham
Palace and entered The Queen’s bedroom. But a…
Starting mostly in the 20th century, a
number of monarchies were deposed. However, to this day we can
still see members of ousted royal families being called by the
titles they held when they once reigned. It is important to note
that deposed royals obviously don’t have their titles recognised in
the countries they used to reign, and when other people, or even
themselves, style them by these…
