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…
