The Princess of Wales is celebrating her
41st birthday on Monday – her first as queen-in-waiting. Her Royal
Highness is marking the occasion privately in Windsor with her
family. This is her first birthday as Princess of Wales, the
previous ten taking place when she was Duchess of Cambridge. No
portraits or photographs have been released to mark the occasion –
these being…
Queen Elizabeth II was at Westminster
Abbey for Princess Alexandra’s 1963 wedding to Alexander Ogilvy and
had a bit of a run-in with another monarch. Footage from Princess
Alexandra’s wedding on 24 April 1963 shows The Queen accidentally
standing on King Olav V…
King Charles removes the requirement for royal dukes to kneel before him and pay homage at his Coronation
7th January 2023
Shortly after the funeral of Queen
Elizabeth II in September last year, people started to look ahead
to the Coronation of King Charles III, speculating what His Majesty
might do to modernise the ancient ceremony. It was widely reported
that The King wanted to change parts…
Prince William to be the only royal liege man at King Charles III's Coronation as roles for Andrew & Harry are scrapped
7th January 2023
The Prince of Wales will be the only
member of The Royal Family to be a “liege man of life and limb” at
the Coronation of King Charles III. The Sunday Times reports that
royal dukes will no longer be required to kneel down before the
monarch and pay homage to him at the ceremony. Breaking with
tradition, Prince William will be the only royal prince to do so.
He is expected to say…
The husband of a Princess who refused a royal title from The Queen in an effort to stay ‘common’
7th January 2023
Back in April 1963, the country stopped
to watch the grand wedding of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin,
Princess Alexandra of Kent, to British businessman Angus Ogilvy.
The couple met during a ball at Luton Hoo in 1955, and seven years
later, Buckingham Palace…
The Dukes of Kent & Gloucester could be the reason why Edward & Sophie have not been made Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh
6th January 2023
Almost 24 years ago in 1999, Queen
Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and the then Prince Charles agreed that
one day, Prince Edward and Sophie would become the Duke & Duchess
of Edinburgh. The announcement was made on the couple’s wedding day
in June 1999, with Prince…
For more than 20 years, it was assumed
that one day Prince Edward would assume the Dukedom of Edinburgh.
Prince Philip’s youngest son was lined up for the title by the man
himself and the decision was shared on the day that Edward married
Sophie Rhys-Jones in June 1999. However, there seems to have been a
shift in tone from royal sources in recent months following on from
the death of…
The Royal Collection Trust has released a
new line of commemorative china to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s life.
The Queen’s personal history has been memorialised on a new RCT
line. The design features the late Queen’s personal cypher as
Princess Elizabeth. The…
If ever a wedding dress summed up its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie for her marriage to Prince Edward
6th January 2023
On January 6 1999, Prince Edward and
Sophie Rhys-Jones announced that they were engaged to be married.
To celebrate the occasion, 24 years on, Lydia Starbuck takes a look
back at the Countess of Wessex’s striking wedding dress. If ever a
royal wedding dress summed…
Sealed with a £105,000 diamond ring - the engagement and marriage of Prince Edward to Sophie Rhys-Jones
6th January 2023
On 19 June 1999, Prince Edward, the
youngest son of The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, married Sophie
Rhys-Jones at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. The two had met at a
tennis event in 1993. They announced their engagement on 6 January
1999. Edward proposed to Sophie with a two-carat oval diamond
flanked by two heart-shaped gemstones set in 18 carat white gold.
The ring was made by Asprey and…
