Old portrait of an aging Queen Elizabeth
I gets a second look. A rare portrait from 1593 of Queen Elizabeth
I is on display at The Museum of the Albemarle in North Carolina.
This overlooked gem hung without notice for over 50 years in the
Elizabethan Gardens Gatehouse on Roanoke Island at the Outer Banks
of North Carolina. Many walked past the portrait without giving it
a second thought. Professor…
TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at
an Olympic committee reception Born into a life of unimaginable
privilege, Their Royal Highnesses Prince William and Prince Harry
may have taken the choice to turn their backs on the world.
Like some of our past royals, the young…
Shyama Perera is a weekly newspaper
reviewer and social commentator on BBC London and also regularly
reviews the newspaper front pages on the BBC News Channel. Shyama
also contributes to programmes such as The Jeremy Vine Show and
Woman’s hour. On our televisions, we may…
One would expect, in this day and age,
for Buckingham Palace to be the height of security, though as was
demonstrated last week, this is far from the case. In case you
didn’t see the news, a man was arrested in one of the State Rooms
at the Palace last Monday after scaling a fence and allegedly
kicking open a door. The mainstream media jumped straight in with
the same chastisement about how…
The fifteenth century was littered with
Edwards. It had always been a popular royal name and the London
associations with Edward the Confessor, whose tomb was located
within Westminster Abbey, made it a favourite choice for royal
mothers giving birth there. It was also…
Buckingham Palace is the most iconic
symbol of the British Monarchy, but far from popular opinion, this
200-year-old building isn’t actually The Queen’s official
residence, and this is why… Buckingham Palace remains only the
London home of The Queen. Her Majesty’s…
The Spanish Armada - Queen Elizabeth I's Greatest and Only Success?
28th August 2013
“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble
Woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and a King of
England too” (Queen Elizabeth I to her troops at Tilbury) What
springs to mind when you think about Elizabeth I, is it ‘The Virgin
Queen’, ‘Gloriana’ or maybe The Spanish Armada? It’s the last
of these that I want to focus on in this blog today – The Spanish
Armarda. Can…
Last weekend, Karen Kilrow and I
visited the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. I was looking forward
to it, even though I had been some years before. What I was most
looking forward to, however, was the new exhibition for 2013, “The
Queen’s Coronation…
Last week, I wrote about King George I.
Click here to read about his life and reign. A bust of King George
II Born George Augustus on 30 October 1683 to the future King
George I and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, King George II was the last
British Monarch to be born outside…
Prince George turned one month this week,
and the cozy microcosm of his mother’s arms has evolved into a
world rich with sounds, colours, smells and textures of all kinds…
photo credit: conormcclure via photopin cc Off to Wales we go… Mum
and babe have left the heather-blanketed plains and woodlands of
the peaceful Bucklebury countryside, with its sheep, deer, and
monarch butterflies… and…
