On Monday, The Princess Royal visited the
NW RFCA based at the Altcar Training Camp in Hightown to officially
open the new headquarters and seal a time capsule. The new
headquarters of the RFCA (Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association)
for the North West of England and Isle of Man will help support and
promote the Reserve Forces of all three Armed Services as well as
support the…
The Queen thanks artist for 'pretty awful' and 'creepy' portrait of Prince Philip
30th July 2021
A woman who painted a ‘pretty awful’
portrait of the late Duke of Edinburgh and sent it to The Queen
received a personalised letter back from Buckingham Palace.
23-year-old Honor Morrison sent the art because she found it
‘creepy’ and felt as if…
Princess Anne makes surprise visit to Cannon Hall Farm to open new 'super-size' dog cafe
30th July 2021
On Thursday, The Princess Royal unveiled
the new Lucky Pup dog-friendly cafe at Cannon Hall Farm near
Barnsley. The cafe is an expansion of a previous venture, and the
cafe now allows for seating for about 150 people. The project has
been three years in the making after…
The Scottish government has given Her
Majesty The Queen advanced access to at least 67 parliamentary
bills. These bills are said to affect her public powers, private
property, or personal interests under an arcane custom inherited
from Westminster. The Queen’s consent procedure, which critics say
is anti-democratic, has been repeatedly used by Her Majesty in
recent decades. It has allowed…
The Prince of Wales has written the
foreword for an upcoming memoir penned by Holocaust Survivor Lily
Ebert (97) and her great-grandson, Dov Forman (17.) Born in
Hungary, the upcoming book, Lily’s Promise: How I Survived
Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live, will be…
The flowers chosen by Diana, Princess of
Wales for her wedding day are among the most memorable of royal
bouquets. The tumbling, trailing mix of cream, green and yellow
blooms that the bride carried into St. Paul’s Cathedral on July
29th 1981 for her marriage to the Prince…
It is perhaps the most famous royal
wedding dress of them all. The gown worn by Lady Diana Spencer for
her marriage to the Prince of Wales on July 29th 1981 at St Paul’s
Cathedral has a special place in royal history. Designed by David
and Elizabeth Emanual, it came to symbolise the fairytale wedding
that hundreds of millions of people around the world tuned in to
watch. The ending was far…
In the end, it wasn’t the fairytale
marriage the world had hoped for, but on 29 July 1981, Prince
Charles, the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer married in a
glittering ceremony that could best be described as a fairytale,
watched by an estimated one billion people.
The Prince of Wales shared his “close and
enduring connection with the Police Service” over the years during
a dedication service for the new UK Police Memorial. Located at the
National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, the memorial was
created to recognise…
Prince Charles continues his busy summer
after several trips to the country with an engagement closer to
home. On Wednesday, 28 July, he was at Sandringham – The Queen’s
Norfolk estate – to release endangered birds to boost conservation
efforts. The Prince of Wales joined Tony Juniper, Natural
England’s Chair, to release some Eurasian Curlews. The bird species
is endangered…
