At the request of security services,
flying over the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk will be restricted,
not allowing aircraft within 1.5 miles of Anmer Hall, home of the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The rules will apply to Anmer Hall
from the 1st November while similar regulations will come in
to effect for Sandringham House on the 1st December. Sandringham
House The restrictions will cover a…
It may have been the site where King
Richard III lost his life, but Bosworth Battlefield has been
labelled as one of the world’s top 25 places to see before you die.
It makes the bucket list of the best sights in the 21st century put
together by the internationally…
The entrance to Powis Castle, which one
welcomed Queen Victoria and King George V, is set to be restored
after a public appeal raised a momentous £500k. Powis Castle is
located in Welshpool, Mid Wales, and Supporters of Powis Castle
were asked to help restore the castle’s…
Born on 6th February 1665, Anne is a
Queen whose reign is often overshadowed by her female forbear
Elizabeth I and one of her many successors, Queen Victoria. Both
Elizabeth and Victoria reigned for longer than Anne and, during
both their tenures, saw dramatic changes occur at home and in the
British Empire. Both of these Queens continue to be recognised as
two of the greatest monarchs that we…
The Welsh Guards have been around for
exactly 100 years this year. They were founded by King George V on
26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant to include Wales in the national
component to the Foot Guards. They were the last Guards to be
created, and they began their first…
Though the sex to which I belong is
considered weak, you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to
no wind.” – Queen Elizabeth I. As the wife of King Henry II of
England, Eleanor of Aquitaine subsequently became Queen of England
in 1152. The couple would go on to…
Within the walls of one of England’s most
picturesque castles, a queen gave birth to her only child and set
in motion a chain of events that would become one of Tudor
England’s most intriguing mysteries. The birth had been much
anticipated and much talked about. The baby, a little girl,
was immediately taken off to a nursery decked in scarlet and gold
where a string of attendants awaited…
Portsmouth comes from the Old English
Portesm?ða, which translates to: “mouth of the harbour called
Portus.” It was a city founded in the year 1180 by John of Gisors,
a Norman lord. Before that, it was known to have been a Saxon fort
called Portus Adurni in the Roman…
Maria of Modena was born in October 1658
and is the last queen consort, so far, to have celebrated a
birthday in that month When being a queen meant that you had
married a king, rather than being a ruler yourself, life stories
were told very differently. The queens of…
Most kings are born into regal families
and grow up with the knowledge that someday they will rule over a
country. However, when he was born in 1683, the future King George
II was nothing more than the heir to the heir to a small German
Duchy – a far cry from the throne of England that he would someday
sit upon. A portrait of King George II, when Prince of
Wales, by Sir Godfrey Kneller George…
