The Royal Palace of La Almudaina (or in
Spanish, Palacio Real de La Almudaina) is located in Palma,
Mallorca (or Majorca) in the Balearic Islands and serves as
the official summer residence of the Spanish monarch and other
members of the Spanish Royal Family (even though King Felipe and
Queen Letizia prefer to spend their time with their daughters at
Marivent Palace instead now). The structure…
At St George’s Chapel, Windsor is a
remarkable Oriel Window which has a fascinating history of its own
and a unique connection with royal weddings. The high,
wooden Oriel Window on the north side of the altar was added in the
1510s when Henry VIII made the Edward IV…
She dressed to impress, using clothes and
jewels as a way of establishing her power as she fought and
succeeded in making monarchy a woman’s job and now what’s thought
to be the only surviving gown worn by Elizabeth I is to go on
display. The silver fabric that was once…
A plaque can be found in the garrison
walls at Portsmouth at the location of the old ‘Sally Port’. Its
patriotic inscription proclaims that “from this place naval
heroes innumerable were embarked to fight their country’s battles”
but that also, “near this spot, Catharine of Braganza landed in
state, May 14 1662 previous to her marriage with Charles II at the
Domus Dei a week…
The Crown Princess Family of Sweden has
shared some of their summer holiday snaps on the Royal Family’s
social media networks. The images were taken by Crown Princess
Victoria. At Tjörn the family visited, among other things, the
sculpture park “Sculpture in…
A fourteenth-century Anglican church in
the Somerset parish of Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge is not perhaps
the place where you might expect to find several remnants from the
lost Palace of Whitehall, the main London residence of England’s
monarchs until 1698. A second…
The sixteenth century
late-Gothic Sint-Andrieskerk on the Augustijnenstraat in
Antwerp preserves a monument with a quite extraordinary royal
connection, for which reason many English visitors in particular,
seek it out. In 1513, Augustine friars established a
chapel and a convent the following year, but as the chapel itself
proved too small, plans for a larger building were conceived which…
Located in the beautiful Gothic church of
St Mary’s at Bury St Edmunds, is the tomb of a princess of England
and a brief queen of France, the third wife of Louis XII. The
wife, daughter and sister of kings, she does not rest in the same
royal burial place as her brother…
Charlie Proctor explains why The Queen
could soon be appointing her 15th Prime Minister, and it might not
be one of the usual suspects. Boris Johnson has only been Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom for two weeks, and in that time he
has already broken a political…
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
has died in prison. According to the BBC, the disgraced financier
killed himself in his Manhattan cell just a few hours after new
court documents were opened. Epstein was facing federal sex
trafficking charges in New York. His body was discovered at 07:30
local time. The Epstein case has long lingered over the Duke of
York who had been named in court…
