She was called ‘the White Rose’ and her
time as queen lasted just one summer. Geraldine, last Queen of
Albania, reigned as consort for just a year before she and her
royal family had to flee an Italian invasion. Though she spent the
rest of her life zigzagging the world, trying to find a place to
settle, Queen Geraldine never gave up promoting her son’s interests
as an uncrowned…
The time Queen Elizabeth II accidentally stepped on the foot of the King of Norway
23rd September 2023
Weddings can be fraught businesses and
nothing every goes completely to plan, even for royalty. When Queen
Elizabeth II attended Princess Alexandra’s 1963 wedding to
Alexander Ogilvy, she ended up having to say sorry to another
monarch. Footage from Princess…
Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait City,
Kuwait, on 31 August 1970, toFaisal Sedki al-Yassin, a pediatric
doctor, andIlham Yasmin, both of whom were Palestinian. Her parents
moved from the West Bank to Kuwait just before the 1967
Arab-Israeli War. She has one…
‘Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced,
beheaded, survived.’ That sad little rhyme, summing up the fates of
Henry VIII’s six wives, is familiar to many. But while just about
everyone knows that the monarch with a thing for wedding cake said
‘I do’ six times only to turn sour, and then some, on the majority
of the women he married, the details of his consorts’…
The royal links of an historic church in the shadow of a world famous abbey
22nd September 2023
It’s hosted dazzling and trend setting
royal weddings but St. Margaret’s Church at Westminster is always
in the shadows for it stands, quite literally, beneath the world
famous abbey. It traces its history back to pre Conquest times but
the current building…
Royals and the United Nations: what roles do they have?
22nd September 2023
The United Nations is the biggest
international organism currently in existence, as it unites
representatives from more than 190 countries and different
international organisations, like the EU and the African
Union. Its purpose as an intergovernmental organisation
is…
On an autumn day, in 1344, a little girl
was born to a famous king and queen. She entered the expected role
of a royal daughter from birth as her future husband, an important
political ally, was already living in the regal nursery she would
call home. This royal baby spent her life preparing to marry and
make an alliance that would strengthen her father’s power and she
is best known to history…
The unhappy royal love story that led to the imprisonment of the Princes in the Tower
21st September 2023
She was the long dead widow who was used
by a king to overthrow his own nephew and yet her name is all but
forgotten today. Eleanor Butler was the woman who helped change the
royal history of England forever and almost brought one of its most
famous dynasties to disaster…
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdown,
was the sister of Queen Elizabeth II and perhaps one of the
“rebels” of the Royal Family. During the 1950s and 60s, Margaret
struggled as the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to allow her to
marry a divorced man.
Unexpected contender in royal hat of the year stakes their claim
19th September 2023
Hats may fall into and out of fashion but
there’s one set of people who are always expected to top off their
outfits with such style statements and that’s royalty. And as
autumn approaches, a rather unexpected contender for royal hat of
the year has staked their claim to the 2023 title. However, she has
her dad to thank for her sartorial choice becoming public
knowledge. As…
