The King and Queen will attend the annual
RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea next week.
Their Majesties will be joined at the world famous garden show by
the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester and Prince & Princess Michael of
Kent. On arrival, Their Majesties and The Royal Highnesses will be
greeted by the President of the Royal Horticultural Society, Keith
Weed, before…
King Charles III has presented the Queen
Elizabeth II Award for British Design at a ceremony in London. This
year’s winner is LABRUM London, founded by Foday Dumbuya. The award
recognises the place that design and fashion has in the UK’s
business landscape…
The Queen has launched the Coronation
Libraries, a celebration of literature that will become a
commemoration of the year in which she was crowned. Over the coming
months, fifty libraries and reading spaces will be created at
primary schools across the country to mark the…
Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and
the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall cost the government an
estimated £162m. In a breakdown of costs released by the Treasury,
it was revealed that the Home Office spent the most money (£74m) on
events surrounding Her Late Majesty’s death. This would have likely
been in relation to security and policing, both protecting members
of the…
Princess Michael of Kent has stepped in
for her daughter-in-law, Lady Frederick Windsor, to judge the World
Chelsea Bun Awards. Lady Frederick, better known as Sophie
Winkleman, was due to be a judge at the the 5th annual awards
ceremony hosted by Partridges which…
King Charles hosts Prince's Trust winners at Buckingham Palace amid celebrity guests
18th May 2023
The King welcomed the 2023 winners of The
Prince’s Trust Awards to Buckingham Palace this week together with
a number of celebrity ambassadors. The event followed the awards
ceremony at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 16 May. The King hosted
the reception to…
Duke of Edinburgh jokes about living up to his father's plaque unveiling skills
17th May 2023
Typically when a new building is
unveiled, a member of the Royal Family unveils a plaque to mark the
occasion. This was no different for the Duke of Edinburgh on
Tuesday at the at the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Merseyside – a
moment that included some light relief as he joked about living up
to his father’s plaque-unveiling skills. The Duke joked that he had
to make the…
Duchess of Edinburgh hosts Garden Party at Buckingham Palace with the blessing of King Charles
17th May 2023
The Duchess of Edinburgh took the reins
at Buckingham Palace this week as she hosted a special Garden Party
for the Not Forgotten Association. With more than 2,000
beneficiaries in attendance, the event has been held every year
since 1921. The Duchess received permission…
The King and Queen have returned back to
normal duties after their 6 May Coronation at Westminster Abbey. On
Wednesday morning, they held their first formal joint engagement
since the historic ceremony with a visit to Covent Garden.
King Charles and Queen Camilla…
King Charles III is related to many of
Europe’s sovereigns, not in the least because of Queen Victoria’s
matchmaking but also because of another woman, Princess Carolina of
Orange-Nassau. Princess Carolina was born on28 February 1743 as the
daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange and Anne, Princess Royal,
the daughter of King George II and Caroline of Ansbach, after whom
she…
