Prince & Princess of Wales

#ICYMI: Earl of Strathearn has a busy day in Scotland

Prince William has been busy this week in Scotland with engagements, as the Royal Family are in Scotland paying their annual visit. Scotland is one of the home countries which will have pleasant memories as it was while studying at St Andrews he met the then Kate Middleton, now his wife. The Prince uses his Scottish title, the Earl of Strathearn, while in Scotland like his father but on these…
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Prince & Princess of WalesPrincess Anne and FamilyQueen Elizabeth II

Prince William and Princess Anne join The Queen for Order of the Thistle

After a hectic week, The Queen looked relaxed as ever as she was joined by Prince William and Princess Anne in Edinburgh. Her Majesty has been in Scotland all week, took part in the Order of the Thistle ceremony at St Giles’ Cathedral in Scotland with the assistance of her daughter and grandson. The trio was dressed in the traditional green velvet robes, white Ostrich feather hats and…
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King Charles III

Duchess of Cornwall hosts reception to celebrate 50 years of Man Booker Prize

The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace on Thursday to celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Man Booker Prize for fiction. The Man Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. The Duchess, who has presented the last five Man Booker Prizes, hosted the event to mark the start of…
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HistoryQueen Elizabeth II

Princess Elizabeth and the Summer of 1938

In 1938, 80 summers ago, twelve-year-old Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) and her younger sister, Margaret, looked forward excitedly to their annual holiday in Scotland during August and September. Only the recent death of their beloved maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, would mar their visit to Glamis Castle, still occupied for part of the year by their grandfather, the…
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