In honour of The Queen’s Holyrood Week,
we’re taking a look at royal history in and around Edinburgh. Our
senior reporter Kristin Contino headed to Scotland to find out more
about some favourite royal spots. “Britannia is the one place where
I can truly relax,” The Queen once said, and when you tour the ship
for yourself, you can understand exactly why. The decommissioned
yacht, now…
They were an unexpected king and queen
and their royal romance has weathered several storms but today King
Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium will mark their sixtieth
wedding anniversary. The couple, who married on July 2nd 1959 in
Brussels, will celebrate surrounded…
The British colonial flag is currently
being hung in the legislative chamber of Hong Kong after protestors
stormed the building. After defacing the Hong Kong Bauhinia emblem
in the chamber, protestors proceeded to fly the old style flag in
the parliament building which was…
Northampton Museums own a pair of flat
shoes, believed to be those worn by Queen Victoria on her wedding
day, 10 February 1840. Of white satin, they certainly would have
complimented the Queen’s own simple wedding dress of finely woven
Spitalfields silk satin in her own words: ‘I wore a white satin
gown with a very deep flounce of Honiton, imitation of old…’
Northampton Museum & Art…
On the upper floor of the Swiss Cottage
at Osborne, a rustic structure carved with Biblical texts in German
and built behind the individual garden plots belonging to each of
the royal children, today’s visitor finds this large room set as if
for tea, with napkins turned to…
A picture can tell a story all of its own
and some images take on a resonance that lasts beyond the moment
they were made. In this occasional series, Royal Central looks at
some of the pictures that have told the royal tale and examines the
story behind them. Today…
When Tsarevich Nicholas visited Windsor
as a guest of Queen Victoria in the summer of 1894, he spent a
brief time with his fiancée, Princess Alix of Hesse, at Marlborough
House, the London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales on
the Mall. As Nicholas wrote with glee to his mother, Empress Marie
Feodorovna, that following his short visit to Sandringham, the
Norfolk residence of the Prince…
Descending the hill at Windsor Castle
down towards St George’s Chapel, today’s visitor passes the Deanery
at St George’s. The upper level of this building, however, has a
hidden secret within its sacred architecture. Over the leads of the
Deanery was a constructed…
One room at Windsor Castle is perhaps
more associated with Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert
than any other. This is what was called the Blue Closet, part of
the private apartments. By a curious coincidence, Prince Albert
would later die in another room of the…
On 25 October 1897, Queen Victoria
drafted her last will, the manuscript of which is preserved at
Windsor. Typically for the Queen, such a document existed outside
of her journal and in her entry for that day – written up at
Balmoral – there is no mention of her making it, although
admittedly, this is the journal entry which survives in the copies
made by her beloved daughter, Princess…
