The Queen is looking to hire a
new Anniversaries Officer to join her existing team who send
out congratulatory letters to those celebrating a big
occasion. If you are about to celebrate your 100th birthday or your
60th wedding anniversary, you will most likely receive a card from
The Queen. Her Majesty’s Anniversaries Officer will help
manage and organise this. Cards are sent to those…
Police have said that they believe a man
who died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday afternoon is Her
Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Barry Dodd CBE.
Formal identification has yet to take place, however, the police
say that Mr Dodd is thought to be the…
The third son of King George V and Queen
Mary, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was born on 31 March 1900.
He was the first son of a monarch to be educated at school and went
onto study at Eton College. His life was full of tragedy starting
with not being able to continue…
First and foremost, we think of bells as
something we hear and don’t see. The bells of Westminster Abbey now
mingle in between the great soundscape of London noise and the busy
restlessness of Westminster, blending the secular with the divine,
much as they have done for centuries. These bells are, however,
extraordinarily special in the history of the nation and are in
fact, one of London’s…
In St. Thomas’ Church, Newport on the
Isle of Wight, stands an extraordinary monument, touching in its
simplicity. It was erected over the tomb of Princess Elizabeth,
daughter of Charles I (1635-1650). This beloved royal child was
immortalized as such by Van Dyck in his…
Following her wedding at St James’s
Palace to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on 10 February 1840,
Queen Victoria drove to Windsor for her honeymoon. Windsor had
mixed associations for the Queen. It was the place of the famous
contretemps between her uncle, King…
Praised by Alexander Pope in his Moral
Essays as possessing a ‘proud alcove’ in which one might happily be
‘galant and gay’, the great house of Cliveden, Taplow, where Meghan
Markle spent the night before her wedding to Prince Harry, was
visited by Queen Victoria in 1866, who stayed as guest of the
Duchess of Sutherland from 26 May to 5 June. It was not the first
time she had visited…
Given the inseparable links between music
and the British Monarchy, it naturally follows that the music
chosen for royal weddings reflected both the importance of the
occasion as well as the personal taste of the monarch. Whether it
was the splendour of Handel’s marriage…
Traditionally royal grooms do not wear a
wedding ring, with only the bride receiving a wedding band during
the ceremony. It is currently unknown whether Prince Harry will
continue with this tradition or opt to wear a band to display his
love rather than royal protocol. The…
The Quire of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
is an area extraordinarily rich in the history of the English
Monarchy, yet this sacred and mystical space in the Chapel
enshrining the Order of the Garter – the Order’s spiritual home –
is as much associated with royal weddings as well as royal burial.
The marble floor of the Quire carries with it quite literally, the
strata of centuries and…
