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 death of the Duchess of Kent
in 1861 – nine months as history would show, prior to the death of
Prince Albert – provoked an…
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…
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 Sweden. At birth,
they are also assigned as Duke or Duchess of some Swedish region
that they will support and visit in their…
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…
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 Hanover, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen
(1848-1926) in 1880 and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein
(1872-1956) in 1891. The…
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…
This is one royal wedding bouquet you’re
not going to miss. When the Princess Royal’s only daughter, Zara,
married Mike Tindall in Edinburgh on July 30th 2011, her flowers
made a striking impression. For, unusually among royal brides, Zara
included a splash of colour…
Windsor’s first royal wedding took place
in the twelfth century. What do we know about this wedding and why
exactly did it take place at Windsor Castle? It was the second
marriage of the third Norman King, Henry I (r. 1100-35). His
thirty-five-year reign was one without revolt in English history,
suggesting greatness in his understanding of how to govern a
kingdom (Ed. Antonia Fraser, The Lives…
