Repair work will soon get underway aboard a Victorian battleship, the HMS Warrior, which was once a part of the high-tech marine fleet of Queen Victoria. Anchored at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the vessel has deteriorated over the past century and requires urgent engineering intervention.
HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, was the pride of Queen Victoria’s fleet. Powered by steam and sail…
Hers is a line which has ruled Britain for almost 200 years and which has given us two of the longest reigning monarchs in our history. So allegations that Queen Victoria wasn’t really a (British) royal certainly raised eyebrows. But now the doubts over her lineage have…
The Richard effect: Seven-fold increase in visitors to Bosworth during Richard III's reinterment week
3rd April 2015
Move over Kate! A new phenomenon – the Richard effect – has begun to take the world by storm, following the reinterment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral last week.
More than 2,500 people attended the service held in honour of the Plantagenet King, and…
On 31 March 1905 an extraordinary woman died at Coates Castle in Sussex, aged 92. Although she had been widowed since 1885, Louisa Jane, the first Duchess of Abercorn, was not going to let advancing years and the loss of a husband interfere with the rest of her life. She may have outlived her close friend, Queen Victoria, by four years, but she was unlikely to be lonely.
This is a version of a…
The Queen’s proclamation – approved in a meeting of the Privy Council earlier today – was read out in London and Edinburgh today, setting out the date when Parliament will formally return following the General Election on 7th May.
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The Australia Magna Carta Embroidery - commemorating the spread of law and order throughout the world
30th March 2015
The Australia panel of the twelve panel Magna Carta embroidery is now completed. The latest delicately embroidered, highly detailed piece, tells the story of how the abiding principles of the Magna Carta influenced and remained the basis of common law in many countries…
The Queen made a sudden return to Buckingham Palace on Monday morning to receive the Prime Minister David Cameron after the dissolution of Parliament. The Queen, who is residing at Windsor Castle for the next month for Easter Court, received Mr Cameron shortly after 11 o’clock as he travelled the short journey to the Palace from Downing Street by car.
Thanks to the Fixed Term Parliaments…
Elizabeth Tower fell silent on Saturday night. A team from the Palace of Westminster Clockmakers climbed the tower to physically move the clock’s hands from Greenwich Mean Time to British Summer Time.
Besides the clock at the Elizabeth Tower, the team of clockmakers…
Stories of the Stuarts: Lucy Walter, mistress of King Charles II
29th March 2015
In this new ongoing series of articles, we will be delving in to the world of the House of Stuart, a royal dynasty who first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland in the late 14th century before eventually inheriting the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in the early 17th…
Today, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that – following the much-awaited enacting of the necessary laws in Australia – the changes to royal succession have finally been implemented. It’s taken four years since the Perth Agreement in 2011 to make these changes, but what actually are they, and who do they affect?
There are three main components to the act which have…
