On July 12th 1543, a rather low key royal
wedding took place. The groom was Henry VIII and his sixth wife was
Katherine Parr, a relatively unknown minor noblewoman who had risen
from daughter of a knight to Queen of England in thirty years.
However, according to the tale that goes back almost 500 years, on
the day she took her wedding vows at Hampton Court Palace,
Katherine was besotted…
On July 12th 1543, a rather low key royal
wedding took place. The groom was Henry VIII and his sixth wife was
Katherine Parr, a relatively unknown minor noblewoman who had risen
from daughter of a knight to Queen of England in thirty years. The
woman who became a…
Charlie Proctor offers his thoughts on
Prince Harry’s fall from grace, ten years on from a 2014 article
praising his dedication to work and duty. As I was settling down
for breakfast one day last week, I decided it would be fun to take
a dive into Royal Central’s…
Their love is perhaps one of the
strongest in royal history, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His
early death impacted the rest of her reign as a depressed widow who
took every opportunity to pay tribute to her late husband. Albert
was Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (present-day Bavaria and
Thuringia, Germany) and Victoria’s first cousin. Despite being born
three months apart, they had…
It’s elegant, timeless and yet very much
suited to its wearer. And three decades on, it’s still
irresistibly beautiful. Which begs the question, is Lady Sarah
Chatto’s bridal gown the best royal wedding dress of them all?
[getty…
We all love a royal ‘what if’ and perhaps
one of the most intriguing of recent times revolves around the
question of the king who renounced his throne for love. On December
11th 1936, 86 years ago, Edward VIII announced to the world that he
was ending his reign to marry…
It was perhaps the biggest royal wedding
style surprise of all. After months of speculation that Princess
Eugenie would wear the York Tiara for her wedding, the bride
surprised us all and what a surprise it was. Eugenie wore emeralds
for her wedding. The Princess borrowed a tiara from her
grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and one that hadn’t been seen in
many years. Eugenie wore the…
In 2001, Prince William met Catherine
Middleton while they were students in residence at St Salvator’s
Hall at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. While the two
were close friends at first, it was at a charity fashion show in
2002 that Catherine reportedly caught…
If one wanted to be cheeky, one could say
this royal love story began with a match. Well, it did when Prince
Edward, the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, met Sophie
Rhys-Jones at a tennis event in 1993. She represented firms across
the UK, Switzerland, and Australia…
There have been six Dukes of Gloucester
throughout history, the first created in 1385 and the current
having held the title since 1974. It has a long past, and some
consider the title cursed due to its most famous titleholder, and
that the first three men to hold it died without heirs. Here are
the six Dukes of Gloucester. First Creation The Duke of Gloucester
was first created by Edward…
