With lockdown lifted, Brits are looking forward to meeting their friends and family in parks and gardens again, and this year a rather unique picnicking venue has presented itself for your socially distant gatherings.
The Royal Collection Trust announced Wednesday that in addition to offering a select number of palace tours this year, they’ll be welcoming guests to Buckingham…
His name was Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. Born 14 April 1867, he was the eldest son of Princess Helena, the third daughter of Queen Victoria. On 29 October 1900, Prince Christian would die of typhoid fever after coming down with malaria in Pretoria, one of…
Diana, Princess of Wales’s infamous 1995 interview with BBC’s Martin Bashir, is coming to Netflix in April. Diana, The Interview that Shook the World will premiere on the streaming platform on 11 April. The documentary focuses on the interview where she spoke…
A blue plaque is to be put up outside the London residence that Diana, Princess of Wales called home in the months leading up to her engagement.
English Heritage is to put up one of the prestigious markers at Coleherne Court in London at the site of the flat where Diana lived between 1979 and 1981. The princess was famously photographed outside the building many times as rumours of her romance…
A man has been arrested after a bomb disposal team attended to reports of a suspicious item at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
The Palace is the Queen’s official residence in Scotland. She is not currently at the property and has been living at Windsor…
It was a royal wedding for the history books, the marriage of a future king and a regal love match to boot. On this day in 1929, Olav of Norway married Martha of Sweden in Oslo. The couple’s romance had captured the public imagination while their rather glamourous…
It was one of the most talked about weddings of the 19th century. All eyes were on a young, Danish princess called Alexandra as she walked into St. George’s Chapel, Windsor on March 10th 1863 to marry Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Her groom was heir to Queen Victoria, her father first in line to the throne of Denmark. And so the gown chosen by the teenage bride had to fit the bill. And it…
It was a wedding fit for a queen in waiting but the bride and groom only made it to the altar after a wave of protest, some of it angry, that threatened to stop their romance in its tracks. When Beatrix of the Netherlands, then heir to her country’s throne, wed Claus van…
When Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wed Alexander Ramsay in London in 1919, she more than made her mark. For not only had Patricia wed a man with no royal title. She had given up her own HRH to become his wife.
Victoria Patricia Helena…
Former Brazilian Imperial Palace destroyed by fire is to be completely restored by 2024
22nd February 2021
The former Brazilian Imperial Palace, Paço de São Cristóvão, is set to be restored after being destroyed by a large fire..
Located in Rio de Janeiro, the historic palace was largely destroyed by the blaze on 2 September 2018. At the time, the former royal residence was being used as a museum and housed the major part of the collections of the National Museum of Brazil. The building served…