Looking at some of the many photographs
taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often
linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that
these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria
would lose several grandsons including Prince Albert Victor, Duke
of Clarence as well as Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia,
the sons of her eldest…
The King’s Curse is quite simply an epic
read and Philippa Gregory, author of the acclaimed The Cousins War
series, tells the story of deposed royal, Margaret Pole, quite
spectacularly. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. Margaret Pole
is the daughter of George, Duke…
The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Alix of Hesse, the last Tsarina
26th August 2015
Before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
the Russian Empire was a Monarchy ruled over by the Tsar and
his Consort. The last of these consorts was the wife of Tsar
Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna or, as she was known as a child,
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. Born on…
While King Henry VIII lived, his greatest
fear was dying without a male heir to the throne. As it turns out,
he needn’t have worried, for when he died in 1547, King Henry was
succeeded by his son Edward VI. But the new King Edward was very
frail and sickly boy of nine, and in just six short years he
succumbed to his illness, bringing his reign to an end and leaving
the throne unoccupied once…
Monarchy Monday: The love story of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
24th August 2015
No questions asked Queen Victoria, and
Prince Albert have one of the most famous love stories of the royal
family of all time. Although Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip do
have one that comes a close second. Princess Elizabeth, Prince
Philip and Prime Minister Louis St.
As summer draws to an end, there is a new
royal fashion queen in town and it’s not who you might expect. In
the quiet days of August, several polls have appeared telling us
who the most stylish royals are and one woman keeps floating to the
top of them. The Duchess of…
In our present series on Royal Central,
we are looking back at the women who were granddaughters of Queen
Victoria. In some ways, their diverse and often surprising lives
are the legacies of the great queen. A queen whose reign as longest
reigning monarch in British history is about to end as her record
is broken by another of her female descendants, our own Queen. But
Victoria had some very…
Sam Launer came to England from
Czechoslovakia as a Jewish immigrant and founded the company of
Launer around 1941. He brought with him an idea that is as
important to the company today as it was then: leather goods should
be elegant, be formed out of the best materials…
Being Queen of Spain isn’t the easiest
royal role around. Ask the two women who currently hold that title
– neither Sofia of Greece nor Letizia Ortiz have enjoyed totally
smooth sailing. And a century ago, the woman who reigned as Spanish
consort had more than her fair…
On Monday 10th August, Queen Elizabeth II
arrived for her annual summer holiday at the Scottish retreat of
Balmoral Castle. For the next two months, she will reside at this
50,000-acre estate in Aberdeenshire. Originally purchased in 1852
by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the castle has been a
treasured getaway for multiple generations of The Royal Family.
Queen Victoria remarked in her diary…
