After being postponed for broadcast
earlier this year, a new date for the transmission of Reinventing
The Royals has been confirmed by the BBC as the 19th February. This
two-part series looks at the ways in which the Royal Family and the
media have established an extraordinary and dynamic relationship
over the past decades. In the first episode – called Crisis – Steve
Hewlett examines…
In this instalment of The Queen Mother’s
life, we look at the 1950s, no doubt a sad but also memorable
decade for Elizabeth. The decade started off on a high for Queen
Elizabeth, as she welcomed her second grandchild in 1950: Princess
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, a…
Behind the scenes of The Tudor Court - The locations of Wolf Hall
12th February 2015
Although we may be just over halfway
through the BBC’s sumptuous television adaption of Hilary
Mantel’s Wolf Hall, the reviews and public responses have
already hailed it a masterpiece of television, and the viewing
numbers from the live broadcasts and online…
With Valentines Day at the end of this
week, the hopeless romantic in me couldn’t help but take a look
back at some of the timeless romances within The Royal Family.
Easily the most famous of these romances would be the one between
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. When Queen Victoria was to wed
she had her choice of many eligible husbands, yet her heart only
belonged to her first cousin…
His works and commissions are
universally recognisable, and he is classed as one of the most
important architects of the late 18th and early 19th Century
Britain. John Nash, a clever yet troubled man, left an
indelible mark on London. So why, with regal designs
for…
Last Friday at Buckingham Palace, The
Prince of Wales held an investiture giving out honours to men and
women who have changed Britain for the better. Among the recipients
was businesswoman and entrepreneur Kavita Oberoi, who was awarded
an OBE for her services to…
Born in 1757, Georgiana Spencer became a
prominent noble within British history, but did so for various
reasons. From a young age Georgiana was her mother’s favourite, and
was said to be quite beautiful. Being born into privilege to John
Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, gave
Georgiana all the makings of proper young lady. On Georgiana’s
seventeenth birthday, she walked…
Katharine Kent will be an unfamiliar name
to many, but in Royal circles she became well-known, causing
controversy with her conversion to Catholicism in 1994. Born
Katharine Worsley on February 22nd 1933, her upbringing was that of
a ‘commoner’ in the Yorkshire…
If there was one thing Prince William
always knew he would do, it was fly. With one of his first words
being ‘plane’ a career in the Royal Air Force just seemed suiting.
After becoming a Flying Officer in the RAF, Prince William took an
intense four month…
There has been yet another development in
the plans to rebury King Richard III later this year. A recent
petition started to have Richard III’s remains taken to a Catholic
chapel will soon be handed to church leaders for deliberation.
Following the discovery ofRichard III’s bonesin a car park in
Leicester in 2012, it was announced that the late King would be
buried in…
