Royal weddings tend to have a lot in
common. They usually take place in huge, historic churches with
brides decked in acres of white fabric and heirloom tiaras and
grooms in military uniform, followed down the aisle by hoardes of
bridesmaids and pageboys. Traditions must be observed while
protocols are dug out and dusted down as the familiar pattern of
this family celebration turned into a…
Why does the 20th of November have good and bad memories for the Queen?
20th November 2020
Many dates in royal history will churn up
positive and negative memories for members of the Royal Family.
Perhaps this is most true for the Queen herself, who has been the
head of the House of Windsor for almost sixty-nine years. Several
key anniversaries define Her…
Court proceedings are underway over the
theft of the Portland tiara which was stolen from from the Welbeck
Estate in Nottinghamshire back in November 2018. Legal proceedings
are active meaning only limited information can be published at
this stage of the judicial…
How an heirloom necklace became the ultimate Windsor wedding tiara
16th November 2020
It’s become one of the big questions in
the run up to a royal marriage – which tiara will the bride wear?
It’s now an accepted part of any Windsor wedding and the decision
of Princess Beatrice to wear the same tiara as her grandmother did
as a bride for her big day is both sentimental and rather
significant. For Beatrice is now the third generation of the
Queen’s family to wear this all…
The only daughter of the Queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh is known for her down to earth, no-nonsense
approach to life and in many ways, the flowers chosen by Princess
Anne for her wedding in 1973 to Captain Mark Phillips were that
attitude in petal form. As she became the…
She was the first of The Queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh’s children to marry and her big day set the
template for the royal celebrations that would follow in its wake.
Princess Anne’s wedding to Mark Phillips, on 14 November 1973, was
a huge state occasion with a massive…
It was a low key royal wedding, set
against a backdrop of family illness and impending drama. But the
marriage of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu
Douglas Scott, on November 6th 1935, began a royal partnership that
would become a bedrock for the House of Windsor as it faced some of
its most challenging times. Prince Henry, third son of King George
V and Queen Mary, had…
“Remember remember the 5th of November,
gunpowder, treason and plot…” November 5th is still considered to
be one of the most important in British history. But why? What are
the royal links? And why do we still mark it today? On April 13,
1570, Guido ‘Guy’…
Learn more about the Earl of Snowdon, the
son of the late Princess Margaret and nephew of The Queen, on his
59th birthday: David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones was born on
November 3, 1961, in Clarence House to Princess Margaret and
Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the Countess…
Glamis Castle is steeped in history.
Located in Angus, Scotland, it has been the seat to the Earls of
Strathmore and Kinghorne and home to the Lyon family since the 14th
century. An author you may have heard of, William Shakespeare, used
it as inspiration for “Mac, err, “the Scottish play.” 2020 has been
crazy enough, let’s play it safe and not tempt fate. Many of you
may know it as the…
