Christmas is just that time of the year
where it is perfectly acceptable to eat and drink as much as you
see fit. That theory even stood during the reign of the House of
Stuart, probably in a bigger sense than it does today. King Charles
I and his family spent several months celebrating Christmas Much of
the food that the Stuarts ate at Christmas time, we still eat
today. Although their most…
Looking at some of the many photographs
taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often
linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that
these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria
would lose several grandsons…
On the early morning of the 22nd August
1485, Richard III and Henry Tudor finally faced each other in
battle near the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. The
short battle, lasting only a couple of hours, ended in the death of
Richard III and the ascendancy of the…
The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Alix of Hesse, the last Tsarina
26th August 2015
Before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
the Russian Empire was a Monarchy ruled over by the Tsar and
his Consort. The last of these consorts was the wife of Tsar
Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna or, as she was known as a child,
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. Born on June 6 1872, Princess
Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice was the fourth daughter
and sixth child of Princess Alice of the…
Its one of the biggest mysteries in
English history and in fact world history, who was responsible for
the death of the two Princes in the Tower? While it seemed to many
that the answer to this question would never be known, one Philippa
Langley is preparing to crack the…
Princess Helena Victoria, known as Thora,
loved tennis and golf We’re used to seeing the Duke of Kent at
Wimbledon and in recent years, the Duchess of Cambridge has become
a regular supporter of the tennis played at the All England Club.
But rewind nine decades and another…
For centuries prior to the Union of
England and Scotland in 1603, there was a bitter rivalry between
the two countries. King Edward, I of England in particular,
despised the Scots and sought to rule over them, earning himself
the nickname ‘Hammer of the Scots’. It was during his reign that
the First War of Scottish Independence began, resulting in some
battles between the English and…
For a princess who claimed a bit of a
royal first at the baptismal font, it’s perhaps not surprising that
Patricia of Connaught – known for most of her adult life as Lady
Patricia Ramsey – ended up changing plenty of regal rules on her
way. The little…
King Richard III brings extra visitors to Leicester on the first Bosworth anniversary since his reinterment
21st August 2015
For years, August 22nd was the one time
in the year when the focus really fell on Richard III. The last
king of the House of York lost his throne and his life on that date
when he lost the Battle of Bosworth to the first Tudor monarch,
Henry VII. And for the long time when…
The White Rose of York and the Red Rose
of Lancaster had been in battle for the throne of England for quite
some time. At the time of the Battle of Tewkesbury the Yorkists
were being led by Edward of York, or Edward IV and the
Lancastrians were being led by Margaret of Anjou, in name of her
husband Henry VI and her son, Edward of Westminster. The conflict
began when Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV)…
