One of Britain’s most famous buildings,
Buckingham Palace, is likely to become the Queen’s ‘third home’ as
she plans to spend more time at Windsor Castle and Balmoral next
year. The Queen, who turns 90 in April, will according to The Daily
Telegraph, spend a greater amount of time in Scotland from now on
so she can conserve her energy for all of the royal engagements she
undertakes. The…
January 30th marks the anniversary of the
execution of King Charles I in 1649 at Whitehall, London. The
date is normally marked by a short ceremony in the Banqueting House
at Whitehall, however this year the ceremony will not take place
there due to the fact that the…
Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel is the ninth
Princess of Orange. She was born on 7 February 1688 as the daughter
of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Maria Amalia of
Courland. Marie Louise was their 11th child. She was raised as a
protestant and she was noticed as a possible bride for Johan Willem
Friso. He visited Kassel in 1707 to meet with the then 21-year-old
Marie Louise. The advice he…
The time-old coronation ceremony of
monarchs could be set to change, following the publication of an
inquiry into modern religious observance. A report from the
Commision on Religion and Belief in British Public Life has
recommended the ceremony should encompass the diverse…
On Sunday evening at 8pm, viewers in the
UK will be treated to an episode of BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow
which is this week airing from Balmoral Castle. Balmoral Castle,
The Queen’s private residence in Scotland, opened it’s doors
at the end of July where people from…
You may have heard of this Princess of
Orange before, as the 7th Princess of Orange was also an
English Princess. Mary was the daughter of Charles I and
Henrietta Maria of France and also the first bearer of the title,
‘Princess Royal’, which was created by Henrietta Maria who wished
to imitate the French ‘Madame Royale’ style. Mary was born
on 4 November 1631 at St. James’s Palace as…
Mary Queen of Scots was born on 8
December 1542, at Linlithgow Palace, incidentally the birthplace of
her father, James V of Scotland, in West Lothian, some fifteen
miles distance from Edinburgh. The palace’s name translates
literally as the “loch in the damp hollow”…
Are you curious to see how the Royal
Family would have celebrated Christmas centuries ago? Windsor
Castle has created a beautiful display to show just that in the
opulent State Apartments. The Christmas Display is set up to mimic
a Regency era Christmas, between 1811 and…
King Stephen of England was born in Blois
in France in either 1092 or 1096. It’s quite unusual that we do not
have a birth date for a future King of England, but by the time of
his birth, it was not expected that he would ever be king. His
parents were Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois and Chartres and Adela
of Normandy, who was the sister of Henry I of England. He was their
third surviving son.
