It’s my favourite part of any State Visit
and it just got sprinkled with Christmas. You can’t beat the behind
the scenes reveal of the set up for the State Banquet and this time
round, it’s full on festive. The Royal Family has taken to sharing
snapshots of Queen Camilla inspecting the table settings and flower
arrangements ahead of State Banquets now. King Charles comes…
The story of a princess who was almost blown up on her wedding day is still shocking
2nd December 2025
The portrait of a beautiful queen loomed
large over King Felipe today. The royal in question was his great
grandmother, Victoria Eugenia, who had to leave Spain when her
husband, King Alfonso XIII, was forced into exile. She only
returned when Felipe was born to act as his…
One duchess has made a rather telling
comment about others who share, or used to, the same title. The
Duchess of Northumberland has said that ”unlike other duchesses who
put their names everywhere”, she prefers to describe herself in
another way when…
The royal couple living separately but who are refusing to divorce
27th November 2025
Renewed attention has fallen on Lord
Nicholas Windsor and his wife, Paola, ahead of Tatler‘s special
edition – due to be published in early December – dedicated to the
Duchess of Kent, who died in September at the age of 92. Lord
Nicholas, 55, the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent
and a godson of the King, attended his mother’s funeral at
Westminster Cathedral…
As a one-time student of constitutional
law, I remember all too well the shocking hypothetical scenarios
lecturers loved to propose. For example, what if Parliament passed
a law requiring all blue-eyed babies to be killed at birth? It is
absurd, horrifying, and –…
How can it be right for one unelected Prince to override democracy?
26th November 2025
Earlier in the week, Prince Albert II of
Monaco exercised a power almost unseen in modern Europe: he refused
to sign a bill passed overwhelmingly by the National Council to
liberalise abortion. While the action is entirely within Monaco’s
constitution, it raises…
Imagine, for a moment, King Charles III
seated at his ornate desk at Clarence House, a bill freshly passed
by the Houses of Parliament before him. His conscience recoils. He
cannot abide the legislation. Perhaps it offends his principles.
Perhaps it challenges tradition. Yet, despite the drama of the
moment, there is only one path open to him: he must sign. The Royal
Assent is no longer a…
King Charles will have Christmas trees in
all his royal palaces this year and he’s already unveiled the first
of his festive decorations. Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh is now
decked for the season and The King has gone for a traditional red
and gold look for the set of…
When Prince William is king he will have to change the rules around royal titles - and this is why
24th November 2025
Royal titles are thought to be set in
stone but this autumn has shown that they are, in fact, rather
fragile things. As summer faded, the younger brother of The King
found out that Monarchs can still change everything with just a few
words. Charles III removed the HRH and…
Not your usual royal name: England once had an heir to the throne called Alfonso and he was very nearly king
24th November 2025
There are some names that just scream
royal – George, Edward, Elizabeth, Anne. Kings and queens have a
tendency to keep it in the family when it comes to christening
their offspring and so a certain quota of names have become
associated with royalty. Alphonso isn’t one of them but for over a
decade, it was actually the name of England’s heir to the throne
and one of the most…
