British Royals

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: A Life in Decades – 1960s

After the death of her husband in the 195o’s, the 1960’s brought great excitement and also significant loss for The Queen Mother. View image | gettyimages.com She began the decade with a wedding and another grandchild. On 6 May 1960, Princess Margaret married Antony Amstrong-Jones. The wedding was the first to be broadcast on television with over 20 million viewers. Following the…
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British Royals

Portrait of Anne Boleyn believed to have been identified with facial recognition technology

A portrait of Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, is thought to have been identified using facial recognition technology. Anne Boleyn’s portraits were mostly destroyed after her death Many portraits since Anne’s demise have claimed to be of the woman that Henry VIII created the Church of England for, in order to marry her. The truth is, however, most were destroyed after her…
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The Kents

The Duke of Kent receives Dresden Peace Prize

On February 14, 2015 The Duke of Kent received the Dresden Peace Prize for his work spanning many decades in the reconciliation of Great Britain and Germany. This comes of the 70th anniversary of British and American air raids on Dresden. [getty src=”463351456&#8243…
Princess Anne and Family

Princess Anne speaks about the #IceBucketChallenge

Last night, The Princess Royal attended a reception at British Medical Association House in London. The reception celebrated the success of the effort to raise awareness about Motor Neurone Disease and the funds raised for the charity by the Ice Bucket Challenge. Last summer, the Ice Bucket Challenge took the world by storm. Both celebrities and the masses doused themselves with ice cold water in…
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British Royals

Sketches by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to go on show at London Original Print Fair

Throughout her life, Queen Victoria was an active patron of the arts. Her journals reveal that, even in her childhood, she dabbled in sketching, often painting paper dolls and even an occasional self-portrait. Now, etchings by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from The Royal Collection are set to go on show at the London Original Print Fair in April. Like his wife, Prince Albert was a keen amateur…
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