The Queen is set to visit Wales for the
first time in five years in October. On the 14th, The Queen will
attend the opening ceremony of the sixth session of Senedd.
According to the Welsh Parliament website, Her Majesty will make a
speech in the Senedd’s chamber. In honour of her upcoming visit,
Royal Central is taking a look back at the first time The Queen
opened Welsh Parliament back in…
The Queen will officially open the
Scottish Parliament on 2 October with her son and daughter-in-law,
the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay. Back in 1999, Queen Elizabeth
opened the first session of the Scottish Parliament following the
devolution of powers. Let’s take a…
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Public Duties Contingent has formally been invited by The Queen to
serve as The Queen’s Guard in the United Kingdom. They will be
celebrating a historic anniversary. The Royal Regiment of Canadian
Artillery A and B Batteries…
From small and simple to over-the-top,
the right hat completes any royal outfit. This autumn, our team is
taking a look at their favourite royal hats from over the years.
When it comes to hats, Her Majesty certainly has a long reign of
fabulous headgear to consider. From ladylike 1950s hats with
netting to trendy turbans in the 1970s and even floral-covered
shower cap-style hats, we’ve…
500 horses to put on a special performance for The Queen to mark her 70 years on the throne
21st September 2021
The Queen’s milestone Platinum Jubilee
will now incorporate ‘A Gallop Through History’ courtesy of the
Royal Windsor Horse Show. Over 1,000 performers and 500 horses will
band together to tell a cohesive story of Britain’s history from
Elizabeth I (who reigned…
The Queen’s Green Canopy is one of
several big projects for The Platinum Jubilee in 2021. Originally
announced in May 2021, the Queen’s Green Canopy Garden was
officially launched on Monday, 20 September, at the RHS Chelsea.
Dame Judi Dench, a Queen’s…
The Queen is set to be asked to pardon a
sixteenth-century abbot posthumously after he was hanged, drawn,
and quartered on 15 November 1539. Blessed Richard Whiting, Abbot
of Glastonbury, was executed for treason in the aftermath of Henry
VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries. Along with Blessed John
Wichter (Abbot of Colchester) and Blessed Hugh Faringdon (Abbot of
Reading), they were…
One of The Queen’s royal pipers has
revealed how the monarch stepped in to support him and his family
following his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Speaking to BBC Scotland,
Pipe Major Scott Methven, who served as The Queen’s piper at
Balmoral Castle while she was in…
The Queen’s Green Canopy will be a star
attraction at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week, with its
ambassador Dame Judi Dench encouraging patrons to ‘plant a tree for
the jubilee.’ The planting season begins on 1 October, so the
initiative’s plans to promote…
Opinion: Should The Queen be sending a national day message to the North Korean ruler?
15th September 2021
Buckingham Palace confirmed yesterday
that The Queen had sent a message to North Korea as they celebrated
their national holiday. This came after North Korean state
television, KCNA, revealed that Her Majesty had sent a telegram to
the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un on 7 September. They claimed: “Kim
Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea…
