At 20:30 on Saturday evening, the lights
were switched off at Buckingham Palace as The British Royal Family
did their bit to support Earth Hour. Buckingham Palace was one of
many landmarks across the world to mark the hour, which is all
about protecting the planet and helping to reverse global warming.
Windsor Castle, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and Sydney Opera House
also took part in the turning…
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…
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 had problems a century later.
These were partially allayed with the birth of a male heir, Edward,
who was made Earl of…
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…
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 wedding ceremony,
the first having been celebrated at Coburg, just less than two
months earlier. Historic Royal Palaces, the…
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…
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…
Windsor’s first royal wedding took place
in the twelfth century. What do we know about this wedding and why
exactly did it take place at Windsor Castle? It was the second
marriage of the third Norman King, Henry I (r. 1100-35). His
thirty-five-year reign was one without revolt in English history,
suggesting greatness in his understanding of how to govern a
kingdom (Ed. Antonia Fraser, The Lives…
