Queen Rania of Jordan was on hand to open
the new headquarters of Al Karma Kitchen in Amman’s Hay al Yasmine.
The Queen of Jordan met many of the female employees at the
headquarters and got a tour of the new facility. She heard from JRF
Director General Enaam Barrisihi why the new facility was built and
how it hopes to create additional work opportunities for women in
the local area…
A spectacular royal wedding cake that celebrated an historic marriage
26th September 2023
It was a showstopper of a bake for a
dream royal wedding. When Harald of Norway, then Crown Prince,
married Sonja Haraldsen in 1968, their cake was truly spectacular.
As well as being big enough to feed a palace full of guests it was
decorated in spectacular style, as befits…
She became an empress in the most
difficult of circumstances and her short reign ended in exile and a
lifetime of supporting her royal heritage from afar. Zita, Empress
of Austria found herself with an imperial crown as a result of an
assassination which sent the world to…
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…
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…
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’…