Lady Jane Grey, or Lady Jane Dudley, was proclaimed Queen on this day in 1553. She has been commonly referred to as The Nine Days Queen. She was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his daughter Mary, Queen of France. From 10 July to the 19 July, she was the de facto monarch of England and Ireland.
It has been reported that she was born in October of 1537. However, more recent research has…
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Queen Elizabeth I – known also as ‘The Virgin Queen’, ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ – ruled as Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Tall, slender and with the characteristic Tudor red hair Elizabeth was a woman of…
On the Sandringham Estate, Prince Alexander Edward Christian Frederik of Denmark was born on the 2nd of July 1903. He would later become The Crown Prince of Norway and the eventual, King Olav V of Norway. He was born to Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales.
His father was elected as Norway’s monarch in 1905, after the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. He then…
On this day in 1911, King George V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
George Frederick Ernest Albert was born on 3 June 1865 in Marlborough House as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Albert and Alexandra. Queen Victoria was…
On June 21, 1377, ten-year-old Prince Richard of England succeeded his grandfather, King Edward III, to become King Richard II. At the time of his death, King Edward was 64 years old and had ruled England for half a century.
Prince Richard was born in Bordeaux, in France…
Today the Earl and Countess of Wessex celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary.
The couple met in 1993 at a tennis event and began dating afterwards, ultimately for six years before an engagement.
The prince proposed with an engagement ring from Garrard & Co. worth an estimated £105,000. Sophie’s engagement ring is set in 18-karat white gold and features a two-carat oval diamond surrounded…
It was on January 10, 1931 at Burrough Court that Miss. Wallis Simpson was introduced to Edward, Prince of Wales for the first time. Wallis was a divorced woman who was then married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a shipping executive, and Edward was the Heir Apparent to the…
On 13 June 1987 Princess Anne, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh was given the title of ‘Princess Royal’.
In her role as Princess Royal, Princess Anne supports the Queen’s role as sovereign and carries out official duties on…
After a fashion, in any event.
We’ve been seeing people marking Her Majesty’s Official Birthday up and down the country and across the Commonwealth, from parades, to speeches, to garden parties held even in typically rainy weather. However one local resident of Bristol has decided to mark the occasion in his own fashion, and has thus dedicated the past six months to crafting a new…
