The emblem for The Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee has officially been unveiled today, and it’s a graphic
design student from the University of Leeds who will have the
honour of having designed the historic symbol. Nineteen-year-old
Edward Roberts has been announced as the winner of Her Majesty The
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Emblem Competition. Roberts designed a
purple crown emblem that evokes…
Prince Michael writes foreword to book about Metropolitan Police's special escort group
2nd August 2021
Prince Michael is set to write the
foreword for the upcoming book, Escorting the Monarch: We Lead
Others Follow – a book sharing the history of the Metropolitan
Police’s Special Escort Group. The book by Chris Jagger set to come
out in October is an official…
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…
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 Prince Philip was watching her. But, she
didn’t want to bin her work. Honor spent four hours painting the
Duke after…
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…
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 published by
Macmillan in September. Lily was just 14-years-old when she was
deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Upon…
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…
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. Forty years on, Royal
Central looks back at this historic day. [getty src=”71520536″
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