The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of
Cornwall will join The Queen at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day so
the monarch is not alone on December 25th. A spokesperson for
Clarence House confirmed Their Royal Highnesses’ festive plans on
Thursday morning. At this stage, it is still unknown whether the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s festive plans are and whether they
will join The…
Stanley in the Falkland Islands has
applied for city status as part of the contest marking The Queen’s
Platinum Jubilee. The full list of areas hoping to win the coveted
title has been revealed with the final decision resting with Her
Majesty. She’ll be…
The Queen will most likely be at Windsor
Castle on the day she reaches the 70th anniversary of her reign.
It’s just been announced that Her Majesty won’t now travel to
Sandringham for Christmas, as a precaution, given that coronavirus
infections are on the…
The Queen’s annual Christmas visit to the
Sandringham Estate has been cancelled following a sharp spike in
Covid-19 infection rates across the UK. A Buckingham Palace
spokesperson said the 95-year-old monarch has decided to celebrate
Christmas at Windsor instead meaning her annual pilgrimage to
Norfolk will not occur. The spokesperson added that The Queen’s
decision is a personal…
Questions over whether The Queen will miss the annual Christmas Day church service at Sandringham
12th December 2021
There are questions over whether The
Queen will attend the annual Christmas Day church service at
Sandringham on December 25th as tougher restrictions on social
gatherings once again come into force. The Queen, who very rarely
misses the religious service at St Mary…
Her Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry has
been awarded for 2021 to Grace Nichols, a Guyanese poet who moved
to Britain in 1977. Nichols’ first poetry collection, I Is a
Long-Memoried Woman, was published in 1983 and won the Commonwealth
Poetry Prize. Her work celebrates…
A beaming Queen welcomes award winner to Windsor as she carries out another engagement
9th December 2021
The Queen continues to hold in-person
audiences at Windsor Castle. She met with Thomas Trotter to present
him with the 2020 Queen’s Medal for Music on 8 December. Trotter, a
world-renowned concert organist, was announced as the winner last
November. In a statement on the Royal Family’s website, The Master
of The Queen’s Music, Judith Weir, said: “This year’s medal salutes
a world…
Queen Elizabeth receives Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women of Leadership Award
5th December 2021
The Queen has received the prestigious
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women of Leadership Award. In a ceremony at the
US Library of Congress last Thursday, The Queen was honoured for
her lifelong commitment to the people of the Commonwealth and her
leadership throughout the nearly…
Queen Elizabeth’s Mistress of the Robes,
Ann Fortune FitzRoy, Dowager Duchess of Grafton, has died at the
age of 101. Born Ann Fortune Smith on 20 February 1920, the Dowager
Duchess was the senior lady in the Royal Household, and her duties
included organising the rota…
The links between British and Romanian royals at heart of latest visit
26th November 2021
Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the
Romanian Crown is this week on a four-day long visit to the United
Kingdos with her husband Prince Radu of Romania. It’s the latest in
a long line of visits between the two families. The first visit of
the Royal Family of Romania to London took place in 1874 when
Sovereign Prince Carol I and Princess Elizabeth met with the Prince
and Princess of…
