One of, if not the, most decorated man to
have served as President of the United States was Dwight D.
Eisenhower or “Ike” as he was commonly known. The reason for his
long list of US and foreign honours relates to his time serving in
World War Two where he was General, the Supreme Commander Allied
Expeditionary Force, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and helped
orchestrate the Allied…
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13th October 2019
Do you have a subscription to True
Royalty tv? If so, you know of the countless features from
commentary from royal experts. If you haven’t yet subscribed, want
to see what you are missing out on? True Royalty is must-see tv
that no one should miss out on! From The Queen…
It’s the hat that everyone wants to see
and we’ll get another go in 2020. Princess Beatrice is set to marry
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in 2020 which means plenty of speculation
about the bride’s dress, the wedding tiara and her granny’s hat.
Yes, one of the style moments…
The Editors' Debate: No - The Queen should NOT wear the Crown to the State Opening of Parliament
12th October 2019
Following on from Desk Editor Lydia
Starbuck’s opinion piece that The Queen should wear her crown for
the State Opening of Parliament next week, Editor-in-Chief Charlie
Proctor says the regalia should be left in the Tower of London
where it belongs. Imagine walking over to your 93-year-old
grandmother and making her balance a shoe, a block of butter and a
guinea pig on her head all at once.
As we are finally to the weekend, True
Royalty has a great show for you to watch while relaxing on this
Saturday, “A Tale of Two Sisters: Elizabeth II and Margaret.” It
focuses on Her Majesty The Queen and her younger sister, the late
Princess Margaret who are very…
The beer tents have been put away, the
dancing is done and nearly all of the hangovers have faded.
Oktoberfest, the huge beer and folk festival that takes over Munich
for several weeks in early autumn, has come to a close just days
ahead of a special anniversary. For October…
In the early autumn days
of 1537, King Henry VIII was celebrating as his
court welcomed a prince. His longed for son and heir, Edward, had
been born on October 12th at Hampton Court Palace to widespread
rejoicing. Preparations were in full swing for an
elaborate christening and bonfires were being lit around the little
boy’s future kingdom. But while the parties started, in a
corner of…
It is thought to be the only surviving
remnant of the famous wardrobe of Elizabeth I. Now visitors to
Hampton Court Palace can see a fragment of one of her most famous
dresses for themselves. The exquisitely embroidered fabric is now
on show at the Tudor palace, next to…
Princess Alix of Hesse, sixth child and
fourth daughter of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Alice, Grand
Duchess of Hesse and her husband, Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse,
was six years old when her mother died on 14 December 1878,
incidentally the seventeenth…
The Editors' Debate: Yes - The Queen should wear the Crown to the State Opening of Parliament
8th October 2019
A week, they used to say, is a long time
in politics. Right now, in the UK, make that fifteen minutes. But
we do now know that there will be a Queen’s Speech on October 14th
2019 after Parliament was prorogued, without legal issue, on
October 8th. And a Queen’s Speech usually means the Monarch, golden
carriages and the Crown. But the last time a Conservative led
administration attempted to…
