Buckingham Palace appeared to have
suffered minor damage during the UK storm, named “St Jude”, that
caused nationwide chaos and brought parts ofthe United Kingdom’s
travel networkto a standstill. The storm, which battered Britain on
Sunday night and into Monday morning, caused some minor damage to
the Palace,according to the Daily Express, but nothing too…
As superstition would have it, “if the
Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall
and Britain with it.” So as news came that two of the ravens at the
Tower of London were killed, some people were worrying that Britain
could collapse and sink…
Ghosts of wives and lovers, hauntings
from scorned staff, frightful sounds, creaks and coughs. No, this
is not a new film at the cinema or a book: These are the haunted
Royal Residences. Buckingham Palace It is said that on the rear
terrace of Buckingham Palace, a monk…
Prince George of Cambridge will follow in
a long line of royal babies when he is christened on Wednesday. As
a deliberate nod to this tradition, he will be baptised wearing a
replica of the christening robe made for Queen Victoria’s eldest
daughter, which was then worn by most subsequent royal babies.
While the details are often sparse, accounts survive of earlier
royal christenings, suggesting…
The office of Lord Lyon King of Arms in
Scotland is to fall vacant in December when the present office
holder, Mr David Sellar steps down after 5 years of service.
The Lord Lyon King of Arms is Scotland’s ‘chief of heraldry’ and
also in charge of state…
Prince William to hold first investiture on behalf of The Queen
14th October 2013
His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge
is to hold his first investiture on Thursday at Buckingham Palace
on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, it has been reported. The Duke,
who recently quit the RAF to pursue causes of his own, was
confirmed in September to be taking on…
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. photo credit: Dan
Mumford via photopin cc “This…
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…
