First and foremost, we think of bells as
something we hear and don’t see. The bells of Westminster Abbey now
mingle in between the great soundscape of London noise and the busy
restlessness of Westminster, blending the secular with the divine,
much as they have done for…
Research from the company Paymentsense
has shown that people in and around Windsor spent 45% more than the
average weekend during the Royal Wedding weekend. The wedding is
estimated to have cost £30 million with a large chunk of the budget
being spent on defence, but it is…
In St. Thomas’ Church, Newport on the
Isle of Wight, stands an extraordinary monument, touching in its
simplicity. It was erected over the tomb of Princess Elizabeth,
daughter of Charles I (1635-1650). This beloved royal child was
immortalized as such by Van Dyck in his…
Following her wedding at St James’s
Palace to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on 10 February 1840,
Queen Victoria drove to Windsor for her honeymoon. Windsor had
mixed associations for the Queen. It was the place of the famous
contretemps between her uncle, King William IV and her mother, the
Duchess of Kent; it was also where the father she had never known,
Edward, Duke of Kent, was buried…
