It’s perhaps the most famous and talked about royal wedding bouquet of all. The flowers carried by the Queen Mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at her marriage in April 1923 have entered regal folklore after the bride used them to begin a royal wedding tradition known around the world. But do you actually know what this celebrated bouquet looks like?
The chances are that the answer is no…
Buckingham Palace's Summer Opening Exhibition to mark 70th Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
28th March 2018
During the ten weeks of the Summer Opening of the State Rooms in 2018, visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to enjoy a unique exhibition to mark the 70th Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales, entitled Prince and Patron, the Royal Collection has announced today.
His…
Just months after the high profile wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, Zara Phillips married her longtime boyfriend, Mike Tindall. It wasn’t a wedding full of cameras and politicians but an event with a down to earth feeling.
Zara Phillips is the…
At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey, there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten had been newly granted the title, style and attribute of His Royal Highness by Letters Patent from Whitehall on the morning of the wedding and the announcement…
Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France. The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with the Barons, and King Edward II still…
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of genuine closeness and affection. The…
The second big royal wedding of the 1980s was, at the time, seen as a something of a turning point for the Windsors. When Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in the summer of 1986, the bride was billed as a more relaxed royal who would bring a new outlook to the dynasty while her groom’s service in the Falklands War of 1982 was still fresh in the memory. The handsome hero prince and his fun…
This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of British history’s double royal wedding at Kew Palace, between the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Clarence with Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. For the Duke and Duchess of Kent, this was their second English…
The wedding dress worn by Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Princess of Wales and Queen Alexandra is displayed as part of the current exhibition Royal Women, in Bath’s Fashion Museum.
Kept in the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Kensington Palace, the dress is on…
Two little known royal weddings at St George's Chapel, Windsor
16th March 2018
In addition to the four weddings of Queen Victoria’s children which took place at St. George’s Chapel, two other marriages were performed at St. George’s within the Queen’s family during her lifetime, which are far less known – that of Princess Frederica of Hanover, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen (1848-1926) in 1880 and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872-1956) in 1891.
The…
