The Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Court
Palace will host its inaugural Real Tennis Champions Trophy between
11-16 July 2017, with the world-class competitors draw being
reduced down to the eight top-ranking players from the UK, United
States, Australia and France. The qualifying rounds open on 11
July, with a pro-am tournament on 12 July, resulting in three
tournament days which conclude with the…
Looking Back at the Wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones
6th May 2017
On 6 May 1960, Princess Margaret became
the first royal to marry in a televised ceremony when she married
photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in a glittering service at
Westminster Abbey. Princess Margaret had been linked to several
beaus, most notably her father’s and…
Prince Philip has served as the Queen’s
long-standing companion for nearly 70 years. The partnership with
the Queen is said to be one of the great achievements of the
Queen’s reign and is certainly one of true love and commitment.
Prince Philip has a long list of…
Throughout history, many royals have
died in brutal and bizarre ways. Royals have been killed in
attacks, by illness and by accident. However, only one European
royal has ever been murdered by a monkey. That is the Greek
King Alexander, who died at 27-years-old in 1920. Prince Alexander
was born in 1893 as the second son of Greece’s King Constantine I
and his wife, Queen Sophia, born as…
The future King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth married on 26 April 1923 in Westminster Abbey. Prince
Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen
Mary, while Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the youngest daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and…
The new pound coin in the UK bears an
image of the Queen’s head, surrounded by the words ‘ELIZABETH II
D.G.REG.F.D.’ It stands for: ‘Elizabeth II Dei Gratia Regina Fidei
Defensor.’ (‘Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen, Defender of
the Faith.’ in…
Following her birth on April 21 1926 at
the home of her maternal grandparents at 17 Bruton St Mayfair, the
baby Princess Elizabeth moved to the house that her parents, the
Duke and Duchess of York, had takenat 145 Piccadilly W1. This would
be the house in which she would spend the first years of her
childhood, as well as White Lodge in Richmond Park.These were the
residences where the…
Will Gibraltar turn into the next Falklands? All you need to know about the territorial dispute
2nd April 2017
Gibraltar – a large piece of rock over
1,000 miles away from Britain is currently in the midst of conflict
over what country has legal sovereignty: the UK or Spain? But
Gibraltar is not just a large piece of rock; it is British overseas
territory with 30,000…
Rebecca Deacon, the Duchess of
Cambridge’s private secretary and right-hand woman, got married to
fiancé Adam Priestley on Saturday 25th March in the Chapel Royal at
St James’s Palace, an exclusive venue only available to those with
a personal connection to the…
On 5 January 1921, Jean Benoît Guillaume
Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d’Aviano, or the then
Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, was born in Berg Castle in
central Luxembourg to Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and
Prince Félix. He had four younger sisters (Princesses Elisabeth,
Marie-Adélaïde, Marie Gabrielle and Alix) and one younger brother
(Prince Charles). Of his…
