Today is the 66th wedding anniversary of
Her Majesty The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. Royal Central
wishes the royal couple many happy returns of the day. Now married
for 66 years, The Queen first met her future husband Prince Philip
when she was just 13 years old at the wedding of his cousin,
Princess Marina of Greece. It was love at first sight for the young
princess. She stayed keen to the…
Prince George of Cambridge will follow in
a long line of royal babies when he is christened on Wednesday. As
a deliberate nod to this tradition, he will be baptised wearing a
replica of the christening robe made for Queen Victoria’s eldest
daughter, which was then worn by…
Old portrait of an aging Queen Elizabeth
I gets a second look. A rare portrait from 1593 of Queen Elizabeth
I is on display at The Museum of the Albemarle in North Carolina.
This overlooked gem hung without notice for over 50 years in the
Elizabethan Gardens Gatehouse on…
On the evening of 18 March 978 Edward,
the teenaged king of England, set out on horseback for Corfe in
Dorset, intending to visit his half-brother, Ethelred, and
stepmother, Elfrida. He never made it inside the building. The
murder of Edward, who would later come to be known as ‘the Martyr’,
coloured the subsequent reign of his half-brother. It remains a
1000 year old murder mystery. Just what…
Dame Judi Dench is asking for public
support for Richard III’s remains to be returned from the
University of Leicester in order to be buried in York. Dench, who
was born in York and has also portrayed Queen Victoria and
Elizabeth I in film, shares somewhat of a…
We have seen so far how Shakespeare has
collated various rumours and fabrications to construct a villain in
his King Richard III who is a murderer, cold blooded and willing to
admit his vicious deeds. We have seen how the foundations were laid
for a man capable of killing a…
A team of experts have concluded that
Richard III who was found buried in Leicester last year, suffered
with a roundworm infection. In a soil sample taken from the pelvis
of the King, scientists found many roundworm eggs. Ever since King
Richard’s skeleton was found under a carpark in Sepetember last
year, scientists have been conducting careful analysis of the
remains to give us more…
On a spring day, April 14th 1857 the last
of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children was born. The
little princess’s baptism took place in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace on the 16th June 1857, she wore the same baptism
gown that was worn by her…
Last week, I wrote about King George I.
Click here to read about his life and reign. A bust of King George
II Born George Augustus on 30 October 1683 to the future King
George I and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, King George II was the last
British Monarch to be born outside…
On 22nd August 1485 King Richard III led
a thunderous charge of cavalry across the field at the Battle of
Bosworth in an attempt to crush Henry Tudor, the invader who laid
claim to Richard’s throne. Unlike the presentation given by The
White Queen, it was not a dozen men in half their armour with no
helmets on scrapping in a snow dusted forest. Upwards of 15,000 men
took the field that day and…
