Princess Anne has arrived on the Isle of Wight, to begin a two-day visit to the Island.
The Princess Royal’s visit coincides with the Island’s popular yachting festival ‘Cowes Week,’ and Anne’s trip will see her undertake several engagements in Cowes.
During her first-day, the Princess visited a brand-new Scout Camp Centre. The Mattinson Centre, is a new building…
Dr Lucy Worsley has had a busy few months. As chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, she has been supervising the making of the new exhibition at Hampton Court Palace called ‘Secrets of the Royal Bedchamber’. Alongside this, with the recent birth of a certain little…
Naomi Watts has revealed she thinks she and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, could have been friends.
“I think she was someone I’d like to have been friends with,” the Australian actress told Total Film magazine, ahead of next month’s release of…
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh is set to begin his return to public engagements on 12th August when he presents medals at the Royal Society Edinburgh. The Duke will also perform his first mainstream engagement at the end of September, over 4 months after being admitted to the London Clinic for ‘exploratory surgery’.
The BBC’s Peter Hunt confirmed late on Saturday that…
In the past year, I have read seven biographies on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Many of the these books contained the same stories, the same milestones and followed similar patterns. One book changed that, Elizabeth The Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell…
Last night I went to see The Changeling Theatre’s adaptation of Richard III at Upnor Castle. Whilst I was really looking forward to the production, I was also feeling ready to tut under my breath at the unrealistic representation of Richard III – a man I have…
Time moves on remarkably quickly in this BBC series. It is the only way that the producers have been able to fit in decades of dramatic history without missing out as many details as possible. This episode begins with a prominent date in many royal historians minds – 1483.
Max Irons fans, be prepared for this episode; Edward IV falls gravely ill. Knowing his fate, Edward names his brother…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have formally registered Prince George’s birth.
The new parents registered the baby’s birth on Friday morning in Kensington, just over a week after the little Prince’s arrival. George’s name and surname appears as…
Two days following the birth of HRH Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Royal Household, via the Royal Collection Trust, was pleased to unveil an exclusive range of official royal baby commemorative china to celebrate the…
This fourth blog in the series focuses on the joint married Monarchs, Queen Mary II and King William III. Queen Mary being the fifth Monarch of the House of Stuart and King William being the first Monarch (in England) of the House of Orange.
Mary was born on 30th April 1662 at St James’s Palace to the future King James II and his first wife Lady Anne Hyde. At the time of her birth, the…
