Prince Harry has sent three tweets in
support of the eleven Invictus Games competitors that are competing
in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, which will take place from 7-18
September. His Royal Highness said on the Kensington Palace Twitter
account, “To those @WeAreInvictus #Rio2016 competitors, what an
incredible achievement – well done for your selection. You’ve
trained harder…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge started
the first day of the tour of Cornwall, the duchy will one day be
Prince William’s when he becomes first in line to the throne. The
day started off with the Duchess wearing a Lela Rose dress and the
Duke looking just as dapper…
Over the years, many people have stood
back and said we should protect animals in the wild, but Prince
Harry has recently put his skills and time into actually making a
difference on the ground. He has spent some time over in Malawi
working with an assisted migration scheme…
HMY Britannia by Tower Bridge. Credit:
Lynda Poulter via Wikimedia Commons. In service from 1954 until
1997, HMY Britannia is the former royal yacht of Her Majesty, Queen
Elizabeth II. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II
acceded to the British throne in 1660 and had HMY Mary built for
him by the Dutch East India Company, and the second royal yacht to
bear the name, the first being a…
The Queen fell victim to a cruel internet
death hoax this week, with a viral story circulating that the
90-year-old died in her sleep. Nigerian television among others
took to twitter to report that Her Majesty had died, despite it
being a fabrication created by an imitation…
Francis, Duke of Teck, was born on this
day in 1837. He was the father of Queen Mary, the wife of King
George V, and therefore a great-grandfather of the present Queen.
He was born Count Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander of
Hohenstein in Esseg, Slavonia (present-day…
Prince William of Gloucester died on this
day in 1972. He was born at Hadley Common, Hertfordshire, on 18
December 1941, the eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
(the fourth child of King George V and Queen Mary) and Princess
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. As a grandson of the monarch in the
male line, he was a Prince of the United Kingdom and Northern
Ireland and styled His Royal…
Sophia Dorothea of Celle would have been
Queen of Great Britain as the wife of George I and the mother of
the future George II. However, this most unhappy match ended
in scandal. It was doomed from the beginning with Sophia Dorothea
exclaiming, “I will not marry the…
You're invited to Royal Central & WWKD's Royal Tour Celebration Tea Party
24th August 2016
You are invited to the party of the year,
Royal Central and What Would Kate Do? are hosting afternoon tea for
royal watchers, royal fans and anyone else just caught up with
royal fever on 24 September in Vancouver in honour of the
Cambridge’s royal tour. For $35, you…
Members of Royal Family congratulate Team GB & Commonwealth athletes following Olympic success
22nd August 2016
The Queen has sent a message of
congratulations to all of the Team GB athletes following their
success at the 2016 Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro. In her
message, Her Majesty wrote: “I offer my warmest congratulations to
the athletes of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the
Commonwealth, for their success at this year’s Olympic Games in Rio
de Janeiro. “The outstanding…
