Bhutan’s newest princess has been named
Sonam Yangden Wangchuck. The Royal Office for Media released
several images to unveil the newborn royal who was born on 9th
September 2023. Photo: Royal Office for Media Royal Office for
Media The Princess is carried into her naming ceremony by her
father, King Jigme Khesar. Photo: Roya Office for Media A family
photo showing Queen Jetsun…
Bhutan’s royal family has revealed the
name of their newest princess with several photographs to debut the
newborn. The only daughter of King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun
Pema has been named Sonam Yangden Wangchuck. She shares her name
with her paternal aunt, Princess…
Rosenborg Castle has plenty of royal
history and carries an air of regal menace that is only slightly
softened when the snow falls. Decked in flakes, it still looks as
if its only place in a fairytale is as the home of a villain. It
has majesty and mystery and covered in…
Elizabeth Stuart, often referred to as
The Winter Queen, was born on 19 August 1595 to James VI of
Scotland, who was also James I of Great Britain, and Anne of
Denmark in Falkland Palace, Scotland. In the Chapel Royal at
Holyrood Palace, Elizabeth was christened in November of the same
year. Named in honour of Elizabeth I, the early years of her
life were spent in Linlithgow Palace. After the…
Royal Christmas traditions have evolved
through the centuries. Some are based in ancient history, others
are ones that the family would create over time. Some are no longer
and some have evolved into what we know a royal Christmas to be
today. In the 1800s, the…
For almost a thousand years, coronation
services have taken place at Westminster Abbey, in times of peace
and strife. The sovereign sometimes arrives at the Abbey a popular
figure; sometimes, they’re deeply unpopular. More often than not,
they’re crowned by birthright…
Queen Victoria spent her last Christmas
at Osborne in 1900. It was forty years exactly since Prince Albert
had celebrated his final Christmas in 1860 at Windsor, the setting
for so many happy family festivities in the past. Prince Albert did
not live to see Christmas 1861, dying on 14 December in the same
room in which with strange historical prescience, George IV and
William IV had also died, in…
Snow has provided enjoyment for countless
generations of children and adults alike; royalty, of
course, is no exception to this time-honoured rule. English
monarchs have wintered at Windsor since the twelfth century.
Windsor Castle was the preferred royal residence in…
Prince Albert is generally credited with
introducing the Christmas tree to Britain, but in fact, it was the
work of his wife’s grandmother, Queen Charlotte. Like Prince
Albert, Charlotte was born and raised in Germany, where the
tradition of bringing a tree inside at…
All royal wedding dresses are keenly
anticipated but there is always slightly more interest and slightly
more pressure when the gown on show belongs to a queen in waiting.
On December 4th 1999, Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz walked into the Town
Hall of Brussels for the start of her marriage celebrations to the
heir to the throne of Belgium, Philippe. Mathilde’s marriage turned
her into the first…
