In the end, this was a royal wedding all
about the special bond between a grandmother and granddaughter. As
Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, she wore a gown
that had once belonged to her granny and the tiara that the Queen
had chosen for her own wedding over seven decades before. But this
wasn’t a one way street of tributes. For the Queen made some rather
lovely nods to her…
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…
In the run up to this royal wedding,
there was as much speculation about the guest list as there was
about the bridal gown. As Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, only daughter
of Princess Margaret and her former husband, Antony, Earl of
Snowdon, prepared to marry Daniel Chatto, the…
On a summer’s day in 1818, a young German
princess walked into one of the most famous hotels in London to
meet a man twice her age. Just a year earlier, Adelaide of
Saxe-Meiningen and her suitor, William, Duke of Clarence, would
never have considered chatting let alone taking the step that would
inevitably follow this brief exchange. But after a short time
together, with chaperones, of…
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 sixty first
wedding anniversary. The couple, who married on July 2nd 1959
in Brussels, now live quietly following…
If ever a royal wedding dress summed up
its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie Rhys-Jones for her
marriage to Prince Edward on 19 June 1999 at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Subtle, elegant and classic, this was the final Windsor
bridal dress of the 20th century and it…
It’s among the most unusual pieces in any
royal collection and, in recent years, it’s acquired a reputation
as the go to tiara for Sweden’s royal brides. The diadem now known
as ‘the Cameo’ has a long and romantic history. And since Queen
Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria both wore it for their wedding,
it’s become the tiara associated with the most royal of…
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia share special photos to mark their fifth wedding anniversary
13th June 2020
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia
celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary with a behind the scenes
glimpse of their special day. To mark the occasion the Duke and
Duchess of Värmland shared some exclusive images from the day they
exchanged vows. On June 13th 2015…
Royal wedding bouquets are often
overlooked but they are often filled with significance. As well as
the myrtle that’s been a tradition since the time of Queen
Victoria, these posies are filled with blooms that nod to history
and highlight the romance that has brought a…
For a woman who had such a profound
effect on a whole country, she is surprisingly enigmatic. Catherine
of Valois changed royal history forever but even now, centuries on,
the prevailing image of her is the one created by Shakespeare for
whom this French princess was a pretty pawn in a political drama.
But what little we do know seems to indicate that the ‘fair Kate’
of Henry V was…
