At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in
the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey,
there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
had been newly granted the title, style and attribute of His Royal
Highness by Letters Patent from Whitehall on the morning of the
wedding and the announcement…
Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at
Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France.
The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the
English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with
the Barons, and King Edward II still…
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s
relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult
in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually
improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of
genuine closeness and affection. The…
It was a royal wedding that mixed
traditional and modern and the bride’s bouquet fitted right in.
Autumn Patricia Kelly was the debut bride of a new generation when
she married the Queen’s eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, at St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 17th 2008. The bride chose flowers
that featured many elements seen through the years at royal
marriages and added her own twist to…
The second big royal wedding of the 1980s
was, at the time, seen as a something of a turning point for the
Windsors. When Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in the summer
of 1986, the bride was billed as a more relaxed royal who would
bring a new outlook to the dynasty…
Following the birth of Princess
Madeleine’s third child, Princess Adrienne, we take a look at how
royal titles are used in the Scandinavian monarchies. Sweden The
members of the Swedish Royal Family carry the style of Royal
Highness with the title of Prince/Princess of…
This year marks the two hundredth
anniversary of British history’s double royal wedding at Kew
Palace, between the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Duke of
Clarence with Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. For the Duke and
Duchess of Kent, this was their second English wedding ceremony,
the first having been celebrated at Coburg, just less than two
months earlier. Historic Royal Palaces, the…
The wedding dress worn by Princess
Alexandra of Denmark, later Princess of Wales and Queen Alexandra
is displayed as part of the current exhibition Royal Women, in
Bath’s Fashion Museum. Kept in the Royal Ceremonial Dress
Collection at Kensington Palace, the dress is on…
In addition to the four weddings of Queen
Victoria’s children which took place at St. George’s Chapel, two
other marriages were performed at St. George’s within the Queen’s
family during her lifetime, which are far less known – that of
Princess Frederica of…
Professor Stephen Hawking, who has died
at the age of 76, was one of Britain’s greatest ever scientists but
despite being given many honours, he declined a knighthood.
However, that didn’t stop him developing an apparently relaxed
relationship with the Queen. As the world pays tributes to one of
its all-time great thinkers, let’s look back at the times royalty
celebrated Professor…
