Sir Rod Steward was knighted at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday at an investiture conducted by The Duke of Cambridge.
The popular singer and entertainer said he was “on cloud nine” after receiving his honour for services to music and to charity.
When being bestowed his knighthood, the 71-year-old told Prince William that he wished his parents could have lived long enough to see him…
You may think that all the Kings and Queens of Great Britain are buried somewhere in our sceptre isle, even if in the case of some efforts are still going on to work out exactly where. In fact, two of our Kings and one of their wives at buried at the Royal Abbey of Our Lady…
Conservators working on one of Prince Charles’ pictures at Highgrove have come across a truly remarkable self-portrait.
One of the still-life pictures, which has been at Highgrove for around a quarter of a century is called “A Vanitas” by the seventeenth century Dutch…
The title Duke of Edinburgh is linked to the capital of Scotland, and was first appointed in 1726, and but it is not a Scottish peerage as such, but a Peerage of Great Britain, and it is an appointment given to members of the British Royal Family. The title does not carry any land or properties with it and it will return to the crown if there are no descendants. It was first granted to Prince…
Westminster Abbey has been entwined with royalty since its foundation. All but two coronations have taken place there, as have 16 royal weddings (beginning with that of King Henry I of England to Matilda of Scotland, and most recently that of the Duke and Duchess of…
Though many of the details of life are unknown or disputed by historians, Adela of Normandy is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and was the daughter of William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England and his wife, Matilda of Flanders.
Adela was born in the years…
In this edition of “In the beginning”, we focuson the Bernadotte dynasty which currently rules over Sweden.
The Bernadotte’s first began ruling over the Kingdom of Sweden in 1818 with King Karl XIV Johan (also called King Charles XIV John), who was also the King of Norway during this time. He was born on 26 January 1763 in France as Jean Bernadotte. It was in 1810 that he was…
#OnThisDay in 1240 Margaret of England, daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, was born
29th September 2016
Margaret Plantagenet was born on 29 September 1240 at Windsor Castle to King Henry III of England and his wife, Eleanore of Provence.
The second of five children, the first few years of Margaret’s life were spent quietly in the care of her affectionate and close family.
#OnThisDay in 1411 Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, father to Edward IV and Richard III, was born
21st September 2016
Richard Plantagenet was born on 21 September 1411 to Richard of Conisburgh, the third Earl of Cambridge and his wife Anne Mortimer, who died giving birth to him.
Richard’s mother was the great-granddaughter of Lionel Antwerp, the first Duke of Clarence, which gave Anne and…
The Cambridges in Canada: Following Princess Louise, Its First Royal Lady
20th September 2016
In September 2016 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Canada for the second time since they married in 2011, this time taking their children with them. It will be the first official overseas visit for Princess Charlotte and the second for Prince George. During his parents’ tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2014, the toddling future King melted hearts and was dubbed ‘the Republican…
