Old portrait of an aging Queen Elizabeth I gets a second look.
A rare portrait from 1593 of Queen Elizabeth I is on display at The Museum of the Albemarle in North Carolina. This overlooked gem hung without notice for over 50 years in the Elizabethan Gardens Gatehouse on Roanoke Island at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Many walked past the portrait without giving it a second thought. Professor…
Kensington Palace set to host Dr. Zhivago-style winter wonderland charity extravaganza
11th October 2013
After months of renovations on Kensington Palace’s Apartment 1A, its new residents are set to transform the centuries old Palace into an enchanted winter wonderland for a spectacular dinner-and-a-show charity gala.
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Having just recently moved into their newly renovated quarters at Kensington Palace, the future King and Queen of England, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are bringing back the splendor of the glory days as they prepare to open court in a series of grandiose gala dinners…
On the evening of 18 March 978 Edward, the teenaged king of England, set out on horseback for Corfe in Dorset, intending to visit his half-brother, Ethelred, and stepmother, Elfrida. He never made it inside the building. The murder of Edward, who would later come to be known as ‘the Martyr’, coloured the subsequent reign of his half-brother. It remains a 1000 year old murder mystery. Just what…
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived being shot by the Taliban, has been invited to Buckingham Palace by the Queen.
Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls education.
The Queen is reportedly impressed by Malala’s bravery…
After being called a “galloping colonial clot” by the British tabloid The Daily Mail, New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key is defending himself at the suggestion that the 52 year old breached royal protocol by revealing details of his weekend with the…
Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, wants The Queen to help get sanctions against his country lifted and has threatened that if she refuses, he will strip British businesses of their assets in Zimbabwe.
The 89 year old dictator has threatened to sell British owned firms to Chinese rivals.
The Mail on Sunday were passed secret documents that exposed Mugabe’s campaign of blackmail and…
Buckingham Palace closes to visitors in preparation for The Queen's return to London
29th September 2013
Buckingham Palace closes to visitors today in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen’s return to London next week. The Queen, who has spent the last two months at Balmoral Castle, will return to Buckingham Palace after her engagements on 1st October in Aberdeen.
For…
The Windsor Castle semi-state apartments of King George IV will once again be open to the public beginning 28 September until March 2014. “Considered to be among the greatest royal commissions and the finest late Georgian interiors in the country these rooms (known as the…
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge receive new 'conjugal coat of arms'
27th September 2013
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have received a new coat of arms, with the approval of Her Majesty, which represent the Duke and Duchess as a married couple.
The arms, which were approved earlier in the year by The Queen, will not replace the couple’s individual arms – which represent them personally.
Prince William received his coat of arms on the occasion of his 18th birthday, as…
