Royal News

Buckingham Palace might just have given away a very big secret. For years, there has been debate about the standing of a certain duke inside royal circles and now a brief social media post could have revealed how the Palace really feels about him. And it appears that an ultimate royal rebel might just have found redemption. The man in question is Richard, Duke of Gloucester and later King of…

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is reported to be switching up the pictures in Downing Street and first to be relegated out of sight is a king whose controversial reign led to him losing his throne. James II’s portrait currently hangs in the state room at Number 11 Downing Street, the official home of the Chancellor. Now, both The Guardian and the Daily Mail report that Chancellor…

There have been big changes in Europe’s monarchies this year and perhaps the biggest of all was the abdication of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark who brought her reign to an end in January, exactly 52 years to the day since she took the throne. Her departure shuffled the royal deck and means a new name now tops the list of longest current reigning monarch in Europe. And, for the first time in…