Kensington Palace has marked World Bee
Day by posting a new picture of the Princess of Wales caring for a
beehive. Her Royal Highness was captured by the lens of Matt
Porteous in the summer of 2022 at her home in Norfolk while wearing
a full beekeeper’s outfit: the beige suit and the netted
hood. The Princess is pictured handling a slatted rack that
was pulled from the beehive, and the…
Princess Anne visits Canada to praise the country's cavalry regiment on important anniversary
21st May 2023
The Princess Royal has spend the weekend
in Canada where she visited the country’s oldest military regiment
on their 175th anniversary. During a visit to New Brunswick,
Princess Anne praised the 8th Canadian Hussars, often referred to
as the Princess…
A chance to get close up with Coronation history at the Buckingham Palace summer exhibition
19th May 2023
Some of the most important items from the
Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla will have a
starring role in the summer exhibition at Buckingham Palace. The
outfits worn by The King and Queen as they left Westminster Abbey
following the ceremony will be…
While some links between royal houses are
well known and rather close, others are a little more distant and
perhaps all the more interesting for that. And although the links
between Albert II and Charles III might be stretched, they are
still there. The connection between the House of Windsor and the
House of Grimaldi begins in the 19th century when Albert I, Prince
of Monaco married a British…
Queen Elizabeth II to be remembered at the Chelsea Flower Show in poignant floral tribute
19th May 2023
Queen Elizabeth II will be remembered at
the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show in a special garden which celebrates
her life. The late monarch almost always attended the annual
horticultural show held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with it
being one of the first events marked on…
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…
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 as well as its culture. The King handed over the
award for the first time at a special event hosted by the British
Fashion…
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…
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 celebrates the currant buns.
However, Sophie has become “unavoidably not available” according to
a spokesperson, with…
