The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are keen followers of tennis. Here they are at Wimbledon in 2011.
With so many focused on the attendance of royals at Wimbledon for the quarter-finals, it seems appropriate to take readers on a history of the sport and the influence royalty has played in shaping tennis over hundreds of years. When researching the history of tennis, it was no surprise to me why the…
From director Susannah Ward come Secrets of the Manor House –Â a look into the world of the British Manor House and the people, including both aristocrats and the servants that lived in them.
Dunham Massey House
The British Manor House is an institution that has fueled…
Queen Elizabeth’s first years as Queen will soon be aired in Canada and the United States.
Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation
A young 25-year-old Elizabeth was a mother to Prince Charles, three years old and an 18-month-old Princess Anne. In 1952, the sudden death…
It’s been her home for most of her life and the county where the littlest princess is spending her first summer has really taken her to its heart. Norfolk has Cambridge mania and it’s all thanks to baby Charlotte.
The peaceful landscape of Norfolk has been home to Princess Charlotte for most of her early life
Since her birth on May 2nd and arrival at Anmer Hall soon afterwards, a whole…
It is better known as the back drop to royal Christmas celebrations but a little church in Norfolk is about to write another chapter in its long regal history.  St Mary Magadalene on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where Princess Charlotte will be christened on Sunday…
Henry VII not only founded the Tudor Dynasty in 1485, he also founded the concept of the Royal Body Guard, and for the last 520 years elite soldiers have guarded the King or Queen. He probably never envisaged the spectacle that now draws the tourists to London.
The ceremony…
The presentation of debutantes to the sovereign at court once marked the start of the social season.
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From the time of Edward VII’s reign, court presentations of young women from aristocratic families took place to the monarch. The event was labeled as their “coming out” and the ladies were known as debutantes- the court presentation represented…
I won’t write about fashion trends of the royals. There are enough sites out there that analyse their fashion decisions. I enjoy keeping up with the British Royal Family because I don’t think there is enough focus or attention given to the fact that they are human…
Anne Boleyn is probably best remembered as the most controversial Queen in British history, which is perhaps not entirely deserved. Even though much is said about her, there are a lot things we don’t know, such as her birthday. Unfortunately for women of that time…
On 17 November 1558 England’s first undisputed Queen regnant, Mary I, died, paving the way for the accession of her half-sister Elizabeth I. Mary had been a staunch Roman Catholic and she had been determined to bring England back to what she believed to be the true faith. Her short reign and early death ended her ambitions of re-establishing Roman Catholicism in England and she reluctantly…
