Palaces & Buildings

Exploring Royal Scotland: The Palace of Holyroodhouse

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28th June 2019
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.The first thing that strikes you about the Palace of Holyroodhouse is how peaceful it is compared to Buckingham Palace. If you’ve ever been to London, you know how busy…
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HistoryRoyal Weddings

Queen Victoria's wedding ring

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28th June 2019
The wedding ring of Queen Victoria has its special poignancy, a symbol of the passionate marriage she enjoyed with Prince Albert. Placed on her finger on the morning of 10 February 1840, her private instructions ensured that she would wear it in perpetuity. What do we know…
HistoryRoyal Weddings

Queen Victoria's wedding veil

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25th June 2019
Queen Victoria’s wedding veil was an object of singular poignancy because of the enormous sentimental value that it represented to her in personal terms and the context in which she last wore it. She wore in on the monumental day – 10 February 1840 – the day she decided was in fact, had been the ‘happiest’ of her life. On the morning of her wedding, a day which began with rain pouring…
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History

Music for a Queen: Mozart and Queen Charlotte

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23rd June 2019
The first and only time that the boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited London occurred between 1764-5, at about the half-way point of the Mozart family’s monumental European Grand Tour, which was to prove pivotal in Wolfgang’s developmental process as a composer, the…
History

The prince of hope who became his dynasty's despair: the birth of Edward VIII

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23rd June 2019
His birth secured the succession in a way the British royal family had never known before. When Mary, Duchess of York delivered a healthy boy on June 23rd 1894 she ensured that her royal dynasty had three heirs in direct line to the throne. But the baby who arrived that day would take the crown from ultimate security to compete crisis. Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Edward VIII…
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State & Ceremonial

It has now been two years since the last State Opening of Parliament

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21st June 2019
Friday marks two years since the United Kingdom last hosted The Queen for a State Opening of Parliament. Her Majesty formally opens Parliament at the beginning of each parliamentary session. As the legislature has not been prorogued for two years, Parliament is still officially in the 2017 session following the General Election which saw Theresa May lose her majority. Parliamentary sessions…
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