Prince Charles Edward Stuart, also known
as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the ‘Young Pretender’, was the grandson
of the Stuart King James II of England, and a claimant to the
throne. After James II, a Catholic ruler, was deposed in favour of
his Protestant daughter and son-in-law, Prince Charles and his
father, Prince James were excluded from the line of succession.
However, Prince Charles, like…
On 4 May 1953, The Duke of Edinburgh
received his wings. The Duke was awarded his pilot’s wings in a
private ceremony that was held at Buckingham Palace. Air Chief
Marshall Sir William Dickson, Chief of Air Staff, present The
Prince with the award. Flight-Lieutenant Caryl…
The festival was coordinated to
commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It
exhibited Britain's c past, present, and future contributions to
society through the arts, science technology and industrial design.
Crowds gathered as the Royal Family made…
Royal Central, we were delighted to have
the chance to interview Historic Royal Palaces’ Chief Curator Dr
Lucy Worsley last month about her upcoming television
series on the first Georgian Kings of Great Britain. Last
night, BBC Four aired the first episode of the series The
First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, which has
been produced in light of the 300th anniversary of…
On 29 April 1986 The Duchess of Windsor,
Wallis Simpson was buried alongside her husband, The Duke of
Windsor at Frogmore in Windsor. The Duchess was buried in an
English oak coffin that contained a silver inscribed plate stating,
“Wallis, Duchess of Windsor…
“Dear Dilys,” begins the letter, which is
addressed to Dilys Cheetham, a fellow humanitarian campaigner from
North Yorkshire who was hijacked by armed paramilitaries. Written
on paper bearing the official Kensington Palace
letterhead, the letter is dated 11 August…
While we retain the Monarch as head of
state in Australia it isn’t to often that the Australian Royal
Family makes the news here, but local media has been sent into
meltdown with the royal tour currently underway in Australia. You
can’t turn on a television, read a paper or news website without
seeing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Everywhere you go that
has had or is expecting the Royal…
In 1525, after 18 years of marriage to
Catherine of Aragon, daughter to Ferdinand II of Aragon and
Isabella I of Castille, the Spanish king and queen, Henry VIII
began to seek an annulment of his marriage. This was not unheard
of. In fact, the Pope had previously allowed…
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are set
for a week of engagements in Scotland during mid-May as Prince
Edward attends the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly from
16th-24th May. During this time, he and his wife will swap their
‘HRHs’ for the higher style of His and…
The Queen, the Lover, the Mother, the
Outcast, the Victim and the Survivor; the six wives of Henry the
8th. Historian and Tudor expert Alison Weir brings to life these
six remarkable women in her book titled The Six Wives of Henry the
8th. The book is divided into three main chapters. In the first,
the reader is introduced to the ‘Princess from
Spain’, Catherine of Aragon: her arrival to…
