Hillsborough Castle lies in the village
of Royal Hillsborough in the northwest of County Down in Northern
Ireland. While the official government residence might look the
part of a royal castle, it’s anything but. The Georgian county
house was built in the 18th century for the Hill family, Marquesses
of Downshire, who owned it until 1922. At that point, The 7th
Marquess of Downshire sold…
She was known as “the people’s princess”
and 26 years after her death, people still go to see where Princess
Diana spent her final years, Kensington Palace. While apartments 8
and 9 are not open to the public, there is still plenty of detail
as to what her…
The State Visit of King Charles and Queen
Camilla to France will now take place in September. Their Majesties
will visit Paris and Bordeaux between September 20th and 22nd 2023.
The King and Queen were due to make the official trip in March 2023
but had to cancel…
The King of Canada has sent a message to
residents of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories
following severe wildfires in the area. In a message sent to the
Governor General of Canada, King Charles shares that he and Queen
Camilla have been “desperately concerned” about the news of
widespread wildfires, and that their visit to the Northwest
Territories in 2022 was a great…
With the news that the Le
Touquet-Paris-Plage International Airport in France is set to
change its name to add ‘Elizabeth II’ in honour of the late queen,
we started looking into other places and things named after Queen
Elizabeth II. While the French airport is the…
The gowns worn by royal bridesmaids can
often be overlooked but the creations made for the attendants at
Princess Margaret’s wedding in May 1960 had a very special meaning.
For they were a link between the bride and her beloved father, who
had died almost a decade before…
When one thinks of the British monarch
and their London residence, Buckingham Palace is likely what comes
to mind. For King Charles III and Queen Camilla, they are often at
Buckingham for work, but it is the 19th-century townhome, Clarence
House, that Their Majesties call “home.” [getty src=”912220758″
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King Charles III has arrived at Balmoral
Castle on for the beginning of his annual summer stay in Scotland.
The King, who recently named himself Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal
Regiment of Scotland, succeeding the late Queen Elizabeth II in the
role, inspected a Guard of…
A French airport will be renamed in
memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Le Touquet-Paris-Plage International
Airport, in northern France, will add the late monarch’s name to
the beginning of its name, making it Queen Elizabeth II Le
Touquet-Paris-Plage International…
The Prince of Wales has sent a good luck
message to the Lionesses with a little help from a young royal
football fan. Princess Charlotte, who has shown her support for the
England team in the past, joined her dad for a video just hours
before the match in Sydney which could see Sarina Wiegman’s women
crowned world champions. After days of debate about whether Prince
William, who is…
