We know that sometimes monarchs choose a
different regnal name than the one they have gone by throughout
their life—King George VI is a famous example of this, having gone
by Bertie (or Albert, his given name) until he became King – but
what about those who go by nicknames or middle names instead of
their given names? Today we’re looking at examples of royals
throughout history and…
It’s one of the oldest churches in
Britain the seat of one of England’s most important clerics yet the
famous York Minster is a rare venue for royal weddings. Just two
major regal marriages have taken place at this ancient church in
almost 1,000 years. The most…
Painting by ground breaking artist rediscovered in a royal storage room
24th September 2023
The Royal Collection Trust has just
announced that a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has gone on
display at Windsor Castle for the first time in almost two
centuries. The announcement comes at the end of a much-needed
restoration work that the painting has undergone…
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 king.
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, to Faisal Sedki al-Yassin, a
pediatric doctor, and Ilham 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 older…
‘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’ reigns are
perhaps less well…
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 on the…
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…
