Marcus Serjeant aimed a pistol directly
at Her Majesty as she made her down Horseguards’ Parade for the
beginning of the Trooping the Colour ceremony. The assailant fired
six blank cartridges before being tackled by a Guardsman and
police. The shots startled Burmese, The Queen’s 18 year old horse,
but she was able get Burmese under control within a few seconds.
Her Majesty was only a mere 15…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have
appointed their first equerry to their household earlier
this year, The Courtier has discovered, another sign of
an increasing yet inevitable focus on royal duties for the couple.
Captain Florian Graham-Watson, an officer from the…
The connection between the House of
Windsor and the House of Grimaldi begins in the 19th century when
Albert I, Prince of Monaco married a beautiful and willful British
aristocrat called Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton. Her father was
the 11th Duke of Hamilton and her mother…
Whilst in Scotland on Thursday, The Earl
and Countess of Strathearn were shown a portrait of Catherine from
a local artist, Tom Sutton-Smith; I have been fortunate enough to
talk with Glenys Andrews, who presented the portrait to the Royal
couple as Mr Sutton-Smith was in Paris, as well as the artist
himself. “The event organisers asked Perthshire Open Studios to
curate an art exhibition in…
Born on the 10th February 1894, Maurice
Harold Macmillan was brought into the world at 52 Cadogan Place in
Chelsea to parents Maurice Crawford Macmillan and Helen Tarleton
Belles. Macmillan had two elder brothers, Daniel who was eight
years his senior and Arthur who was four…
Robert Anthony Eden was born on 12th June
1897 at Windlestone Hall in County Durham into a Conservative
landed gentry family. His father was Sir William Eden and his
mother Sybil Frances Grey. Eden was educated at two independent
schools, Sandroyd School and Eton…
Tea drinking in England dates back to
1662, when it was introduced at court by Portuguese Infanta
Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. Anna Maria Stanhope,
Duchess of Bedford However, the very British ritual of ‘Afternoon
Tea’ as a meal found its ‘raison d’être’ in the dressing room of
Anna Maria Russell, née Stanhope, the seventh Duchess of Bedford,
one of Queen Victoria’s…
The bill had done well to reach committee
stage in the Lords last session before it ran out of steam and the
forces of time conspired against its further progress. Fortunately,
however, The Courtier has discovered this is by no means the
end of the line for the fight to…
As the introduction states: “Under Queen
Elizabeth II royalty has continued to adapt to the modern world,
and despite some bad times, remains the strongest of British
institutions”. In many ways, this sense of pride and admiration for
the British monarchy is the…
1953: The Queen in Timaru, a major port
in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand. Crowds gathered
on the banks of the River Thames to catch a glimpse of the Royal
Yacht Britannia bringing Her Majesty and the Royal family home.
Numerous sirens from ships and even factories rang out as the
Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne made
their way down the Thames. They…
