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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 on the site is a Tudor creation with plenty of tales to tell. It hosted one of the most glamourous royal weddings of the…

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 before they had even secured the throne. But was she also Queen of England? Eleanor never claimed a crown for herself but as…

It is a day of celebration in Sweden as the country marks the first ever Golden Jubilee of a monarch in its history. But it is also a day of contemplation for the country’s royals as it is also the anniversary of the death of a much loved family member. King Carl XVI Gustaf took the throne on September 15th 1973 on the death of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf. The first sight of the…