With all the fuss about the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge being made every time a new engagement is
announced, it’s worth reflecting sometimes that despite their
public appearance, and the media coverage of their appearances,
they are by no means the most active members of the Royal Family.
Indeed now, it is often the most active members who are overlooked.
Princess Anne has been performing…
This is the second interview in our
series. Click here to see our first interview with Andrew Jamieson,
the Queen’s official scribe and illuminator. Grant Harrold worked
in the Prince of Wales’s household from 2004-2011. You can see
Grant’s new…
Much has been made of the Queen’s and
Prince Charles’ apparent veto power over proposed legislation in
the House of Commons (see, for example, The Independent and the BBC
News). These ‘veto’ powers have been around for centuries and
are part of…
This is the first in what we hope will be
a series of fascinating and candid interviews with some very
interesting (and in some cases, lesser known) people who are
involved in working with the Royal Family. Andrew Stewart
Jamieson is Her Majesty The Queen’s Official Scribe and
Illuminator and he very kindly spared us some of his time to answer
a few questions about just what it is he does.
As Prince Harry re-introduces the world
to his girlfriend, Cressida Bonas, we take a look at just who
Cressida is, (how to pronounce her name), whether she’s likely to
be a long-term girlfriend for Harry (or more) and more. Cressida
Bonas (name pronounced as…
It has come to our attention recently
that there is some confusion about Prince William and the Duchess
Of Cambridge’s placement in terms of entitlement to titles, in
order to try and redress this, here’s our short, yet we hope
informative guide, to what Prince…
I know it is naïve, but I am a
hopeless romantic. I don’t fall in love with everything that moves,
but I believe in real, deep, everlasting love. Perhaps because of
my parents’ great love story, when my 13-year-old mum met my
16-year-old daddy and to this day they still like each other.
Perhaps because I love to defy the odds. Or perhaps it has to do
with the great role models and…
‘The Crown’ is said to be a term
synonymous with the monarch, a term used in legal situations and by
monarchists. But what does it actually mean, and why has something
inanimate and useful as a form of royal headdress been taken to
mean the sovereign of the…
On this day, 173 years ago, Queen
Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in a ceremony
performed at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, a moment’s walk
from Buckingham Palace, the home of the Monarch since the beginning
of Queen Victoria’s…
It is a little known fact that most of
the European, and even a lot of other international Monarchs are
related to The Queen of the United Kingdom. This goes back to the
days when Queen Victoria’s children married out of the family and
into overseas Royalty, thus creating relations between the
Monarchial heads of state of many countries.In this article, we
will list some of The Queen’s…
