Although Shakespeare credited King
Richard III with being a hunchback —and thus identified
him with an evil creature who could murder his two nephews to
gain the throne—new studies are calling this a mistake. Being one
of Duchess Cecily Neville’s three sons to live into adulthood,
Richard was given the title Duke of Gloucester before he took
to the throne after the death of his brother…
Firstly, thank you for once again
allowing me the pleasure to discuss another one of your programmes
with Royal Central. My pleasure – I’m glad that your readers are
interested in the work we do at Historic Royal Palaces! You have
given viewers insight in the Royal…
th, Princess Amalia Gabriela Maria
Theresa of Nassau was born to Prince Felix and Princess Claire of
Luxembourg. She is third in line to the throne of Luxembourg. The
little princess’s birth came nine months after her parents’s
wedding at a historic French basilica in…
In this post, we’ll analyse if the
other European monarchies enjoy the same levels of support as the
British Monarchy and just how things are for the royals on the
continent. Denmark Queen Margrethe of Denmark – the world’s only
other Queen Regnant other than Queen Elizabeth – has reigned for 42
years and celebrated her Ruby Jubilee in Denmark in 2012, at the
same time as our Queen…
A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and
great-aunt of the present Duke of Edinburgh, no one who saw
Princess Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse-Darmstadt gracing the opulent
Romanov Court could have imagined that she would die horrifically
of infected wounds and starvation in a…
King William IV had one dying wish and
that was to see the anniversary of Waterloo on 18 June. Two days
later on 20 June 1837, The King died around two in the morning at
Windsor Castle. William IV was 71 when he died. It has been noted
that he drank more than a bottle of…
The origin of the Waterloo Ceremony dates
back to the early 19th century. In 1815, Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington, led the British army into battle
against a formidable enemy – the French. The armies met at
Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated, bringing an end to nearly 23
years of war in Europe. The Duke of Wellington returned to England,
victorious. Returning to an extremely…
For royalists, tourists and
history-lovers alike, the palaces which still stand in Britain
today are grand symbols of our past royal courts, kings and
queens. In this new three-part series by BBC Four, historian Dan
Cruickshank will take viewers through the walls of some of…
A collector, who bought the box at an
auction on a hunch, didn't want to damage the box by opening it so
he instead decided to x-ray it, with the scans revealing hundreds
of tins stuffed with goodies such as chocolate, cigarettes and
sweets. This one box however never…
The gardeners at Historic Royal Palaces
have “planted” the seeds of restoration at Hampton Court Palace and
what has grown is a newly restored Kitchen Garden. The Kitchen
Garden recreates the gardens that would have provided a wide
variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits to have fed the Royals
during the Georgian era. A team of professional gardeners are
restoring the pathways and seeding…
