There have been many royal related films
released over the years. I have listed below my top five royal
associated films. The King’s Speech: The 2010 film starred Colin
Firth as King George VI who struggles with his speech impediment
and receives help from an Australian speech therapist who
provides vital assistance in preparing the nervous King before his
first wartime radio broadcast…
The Queen’s Christmas Message, broadcast
on television, radio, and the internet on Christmas Day, is a
staple of the royal calendar. It is a tradition started by her
grandfather, King George V and continued by her father, King George
VI via radio broadcast. It wasn’t…
Kelli Finger interviews Myka Meir of
Beaumont Etiquette to get a better look at what training Meghan
Markle will need as she joins the Royal Family. With Meghan Markle
due to officially join the Royal Family in May of next year, I was
curious about what training she would…
Members of the Royal Family take up
important positions as they represent their country. Therefore,
they are expected to act dignified, diplomatic and are expected to
be on their best behaviour at all times. However, not all royals
succeed in this task. From time to time some royals speak up
unexpectedly. This was no different in 2017. Here are the top five
worst royal quotes of 2017. 5. “My…
Queen Elizabeth has undertaken 94
official State Visits during her reign, plus two State Visits in
her capacity as Queen of Canada (she visited the United States
twice in the ‘50s). A State Visit is when a foreign head of state
is invited to visit a country by that…
“Dear old Sandringham, the place I love
better than anywhere else in the world…” were the words which King
George V used to describe the Norfolk retreat, beloved by four
generations of the British Royal Family since 1862; it was a
sentimentechoed by…
Kensington Palace was, in its original
form, a Jacobean mansion built in 1605, and bought by William and
Mary in 1689. They directed Sir Christopher Wren to renovate and
expand the building, and Wren added a three-storey pavilion at each
corner to create more space for the Royal Family. The Palace was,
until the time of George II, the favoured house of the monarch. In
its illustrious history, it…
Prince Albert is generally credited with
introducing the Christmas tree to Britain, but in fact, it was the
work of his wife’s grandmother, Queen Charlotte. Like Prince
Albert, Charlotte was born and raised in Germany, where the
tradition of bringing a tree inside at…
The Queen's first Christmas 1926: As Meghan looks ahead to her first royal Christmas, we look back at Princess Elizabeth's
5th December 2017
As Meghan Markle prepares to spend her
first Christmas with the royal family at Sandringham, her fiancé’s
grandmother may recall fondly her own early Christmases at the
much-loved Norfolk estate. One such occasion the Queen would be
unable to remember, however, is her…
The British Monarchy has acquired
residences across Great Britain through the centuries and moulded
them to their own preferences. We look at the top five royal
residences, how they were acquired, how they have changed over the
centuries and the use that Queen Elizabeth II and her family use
them now. Buckingham Palace Gadgetdube/Flickr You might be mistaken
in thinking that Buckingham Palace…
