The Queen, along with The Duke of
Edinburgh, arrived by car at Horse Guards Parade this morning
shortly after 11:00am, amidst the cold and windy weather. A few
minutes later, the Singaporean President and his wife
arrived, accompanied by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Earlier
this morning, His Excellency and Mrs Tan
were greeted at the Royal Garden Hotel in London by The Duke
and…
The 11th Duke of Marlborough, who
recently died on October 16th, left a widow, Lily. Now the Dowager
Duchess, over thirty years the Duke’s junior, she married him in
2008 and became his fourth wife and second duchess. It was she who
was instrumental in reconciling the Duke…
Whether a State occasion or travel
between the Tower of London, Windsor, Hampton Court, Westminster or
Greenwich, the Thames was the means for travel and the men who
rowed the Royal barges up and down the river were known as the
Royal Watermen. Grand Ceremonial events often…
Until 1782, the office was one of great
political significance and held Cabinet rank. After 1924, the
office would change over as the government changed. The Lord
Steward was at one time head of his own department of the Household
that was in charge of the ‘below stairs’ officers and staff through
the Board of Green Cloth. Much of the work was assigned to the Lord
Stewards underlings, usually…
This was only the second or
third time that I've ever visited Windsor and covering an
Investiture was certainly something that I never thought I'd be
doing so to be invited to sit in on one of these magnificent
ceremonies as a guest, I felt incredibly…
The route which Richard III’s remains
will follow before being reinterred in Leicester Cathedral has now
been revealed to the public. On Sunday 22nd March 2015, the last
Plantagenet King will make his final journey before being laid to
rest in the cathedral on Thursday…
The knee-length bloomers were one of a
number of items to be sold at auction this week. The overseas buyer
of Britain’s longest reigning monarch’s bloomers wishes to remain
anonymous, according to the auctioneer. A pair of silk stockings,
also belonging to Victoria, sold for £1,100. Michael Hogben, the
auctioneer, said: “The items are very large. “She wore them towards
the end of her life…
Our journey of influential queen mothers
continues with Cecily Neville, the mother of two King’s of
England. Cecily was born in 1415 with royal lineage that linked her
to John of Gaunt, King Henry IV and Edward III of England. By the
age of nine she was betrothed to…
Victoria faced the most assassination
attempts in centuries 5. In June 1850, Robert Pate became the fifth
person to make an attempt on Victoria’s life. Once more, her
children witnessed the attack – Bertie, Alice, and Affie – and this
time, Victoria was…
This increase in tourist
numbers means that now, over half of the costs of running the
castle are met by tourist revenue alone. It is reported that 40
percent of the visitors were tourists from overseas, proving that
the popularity of Her Majesty and the entire British Royal Family
extends far beyond the shores of the United Kingdom. “It has been a
very good year. We are about five per cent…
