Princess Alix of Hesse, later Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, visited the Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate in 1894 to take a cure for sciatica, during which time she became godmother to the Allen twins, born in the house where she was staying, to her landlady, Mrs Allen. These twins were the recipient of christening gifts and presents from Princess Alix even after she became Tsarina, with presents…
Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold (1788-1859), referred to in most biographies of Queen Victoria simply as Madame Siebold, is a name often treated as a historical footnote, but is in fact, one of quite astonishing importance. It was Madame Siebold, the skilled German…
Theresa May has announced that she has resigned as Conservative Party Leader on June 7.
She will stay on as Prime Minister until a successor has been found.
Mrs May has notified The Queen of her decision. Her permanent successor will be appointed within the next few…
On 24 May 1819, a baby girl was born whose birth would be of overwhelming importance but on whose delivery it was by no means certain that she would succeed. This, despite the proud boast of her father, the Duke of Kent, who was determined in the royal marriage race that ensued on the death of the Prince Regent’s heir, Princess Charlotte, that ‘the crown will come to me and my children’.
This Week in Royal Fashion: Lady Gabriella's wedding, Kate at the Chelsea Flower Show and Buckingham Palace garden party
23rd May 2019
We were treated to a blockbuster fashion week with a royal wedding, the Chelsea Flower Show, and a Buckingham Palace garden party. There’s much to cover, so let’s take a look at some of the style highlights:
Guests at Lady Gabriella’s wedding
Lady Gabriella…
Mrs Brock was the future Queen Victoria’s nurse. Called by her ‘dear Boppy’ (op. cit., Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria, A Personal History, 21), she remained Princess Victoria’s nurse until the age of five, after which she passed into the better-known hands of…
Soft, striking and above all, symbolic. The wedding bouquet carried by the future Queen of Spain, Letizia Ortiz, at her royal wedding on May 22nd 2004 was filled with significance. From personal touches to nods to one of the oldest ruling dynasties in Europe, Letizia filled her posy with meaning.
At the heart of her cascading bouquet were the iris and the lily, closely associated with the House…
The gardens at the Prince of Wales’s Highgrove estate are world-renowned, and with spring in full bloom now you can enjoy his beloved gardens in Tetbury for yourself.
The public opening for the private gardens of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall has started…
Buckingham Palace has released three photos to mark the wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor and Thomas Kingston.
The images were taken by photographer Hugo Burnand at Frogmore House in Windsor, where the couple hosted their wedding reception.
Hugo Burnand (handout)
The first…
Queen Victoria is for many, synonymous with the notion of afternoon tea, probably because the social ceremony became properly established during the later years of her reign. The Queen’s evident love of tea, however, reaches back much further than this elegant ritual. Indeed, the word occurs 7,587 times in the various typescripts or edited copies of her journal, proving it was part of her…
