We’re used to seeing royal brides with white flowers. Many a regal wedding has featured a posy of pretty cream flowers, dotted with hints of green and matching the dress to perfection. Bright bouquets are a rarity but they make their mark. Here’s a rainbow of royal wedding bouquets.
Red: Princess Beatrice
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The Royal Family has marked Mother’s Day with one already famous photograph and some rather poignant words.
The day was celebrated with a heartfelt message from the Princess of Wales who was seen for the first time since undergoing major surgery in January.
As…
The King has appointed his youngest brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, to the Order of the Thistle. Prince Edward was given the honour to mark his 60th birthday on March 10th 2024. The Order is the highest chivalric order in Scotland.
Appointments to the Order are made…
Queen Mary acquired many of the tiaras that are still worn by the extended British Royal Family. While much of the public’s attention is on the tiaras worn by the late Queen, the current Princess of Wales, and Queen Camilla, there are other pieces worn by the Kent and Gloucester branches of the family. Today we will be looking at one of the Gloucester Tiaras, the Iveagh Tiara.
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In the last months of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II shared a very special moment with her youngest granddaughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor.
As she attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show in May 2022, just months before her death, Her Late Majesty beamed with pride as…
While Queen Mary was known to be a magpie with a large jewellery collection, her mother-in-law also had a strong collection of her own. And amongst the most famous pieces is the gem now known as Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik Tiara.
In 1888, the then Prince and Princess of…
The husband of a Princess who refused a title from The Queen in an effort to stay ‘common’
8th March 2024
Back in April 1963, the country stopped to watch the grand wedding of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, Princess Alexandra of Kent, to British businessman Angus Ogilvy.
The couple met during a ball at Luton Hoo in 1955, and seven years later, Buckingham Palace announced they were engaged to be married.
Despite being the second son of the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Angus was seen as…
Within the walls of one of England’s most picturesque castles, a queen gave birth to her only child and set in motion a chain of events that would become one of Tudor England’s most intriguing mysteries. The birth had been much anticipated and much talked about.
It was a low key royal wedding, set against a backdrop of family illness and impending drama. But the marriage of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, on November 6th1935, began a royal partnership that would become a bedrock for the…
The history of royal Maundy, the ancient tradition Queen Camilla will now carry out on behalf of King Charles
5th March 2024
Queen Camilla will distribute Maundy money this year, carrying out the ancient tradition on behalf of King Charles as he continues his treatment for cancer. Her Majesty will take on one of the oldest royal duties of all with its history intertwined in the very origins of the monarchy.
Royal Maundy is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, which precedes Good…
