A bedroom gives a uniquely personal
insight into any historical personality and a royal personage no
less so. Many key moments in Queen Victoria’s life also took place
in her bedrooms, which help in no small way, to tell the story of
that life. The furnishing of this most private of spaces – usually
the penultimate room in the sequence of rooms which defined through
architecture, the level of…
The Queen has been portrayed in TV
shows and films over the years by an array of actresses. Whether
they have played her on the small screen, in blockbuster films or
voiced animated versions of her, there have been some iconic
portrayals. Phoebe Barton takes a look back at…
They are monuments to love that have told
a royal romance for seven centuries. The Eleanor Crosses are a
famous part of England’s regal history and, for hundreds of years,
they have told the story of the king who built them for the queen
he had lost and could never forget.
The Duchess of Sussex deserves so much better than how she has been treated
1st August 2018
Royal Central’s Editorial Assistant Jess
Ilse argues that the Duchess of Sussex deserves so much better
than how she has been treated in the media and online. Last year
the conversation about women changed due to a reckoning that
rippled its way through Hollywood. When the dust settled – though
news still breaks of a new scandal every so often – it was with
women recognising their power and…
Queen Victoria’s love of dogs provided
the inspiration for royal sculpture and painting, as well, of
course, the Queen’s journal entries. References to her dogs abound
throughout. Interestingly, her life may in one way, be charted
through her dogs, because they were with…
Royal Central’s Editor-in-Chief Charlie
Proctor says it is high time we stop treating members of The Royal
Family as celebrities and to instead consider them in the same
light as any politicians or statespersons. What does the Duchess of
Cambridge and Kim Kardashian have…
She would go on to live a life of royal
duties which led her to be called one of the unsung heroes of the
Royal Family, but today we take a look at the life of the Duchess
of Gloucester before she married The Queen’s cousin: Prince
Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Born Birgitte Eva Henriksen on 20
June 1946 in Odense, Denmark, she is the youngest daughter
of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a…
On 25 June 1900, Victoria, Princess Louis
of Battenberg – born Princess Victoria of Hesse – gave birth to a
son at Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park, the erstwhile
residence of Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent, until
her death in 1861. Princess Louis of…
Princess Alix of Hesse visited Malta in
1890. Little would appear to have been recorded about it, although
it is possible to piece together some details of the trip from
surviving accounts, biographies by those that personally knew her
and from extracts of letters she wrote…
Spain’s Leonor, Princess of Asturias is
unrecognisable on her first coin that has been issued by the Royal
Mint of Spain for the 1300 Anniversary of the Kingdom of Asturias.
The coin is also in celebration of Spain’s first proclamation
of the Picos de Europa as a National Park, according to Spanish
paper, El Pais. The 12-year-old future Queen of Spain is seen
on the front of the €30…
