From the roof, you can see Windsor
Castle, but that’s not nearly the most regal thing about Cliveden
in Buckinghamshire where Meghan Markle will spend the night before
her marriage to Prince Harry. This palatial house, owned by the
National Trust and leased as a hotel, has entertained many royals
over the years and was once even home to a regal rebel. As Cliveden
gets ready to add more majesty…
All Fine on the Day: a look at past royal weddings which have turned out well despite problems
16th May 2018
Being part of a royal family may be a
privilege but it does not protect its members from the worries and
woes that beset everyone else. Weddings are famously fraught with
difficulties, as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are discovering.
Perhaps they can take comfort from the…
On 21 September 1662, Samuel Pepys
entered the following words into his Restoration diary: “The Queen
coming by in her coach, going to her chappell at St. James’s (the
first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after her, and I
got up to the room where her closet…
If ever a royal wedding dress summed up
its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie Rhys-Jones for her
marriage to Prince Edward on 19 June 1999 at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Subtle, elegant and classic, this was the final Windsor
bridal dress of the 20th century and it saw in a new era with
style. Sophie and Edward’s big day might have been a modern
marriage but it had an air of the…
If you were secretly hoping that the new
Lifetime movie – Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance – would be good,
I’m sorry to burst your bubble. The Crown it is not. There’s always
an element of camp to Lifetime movies. The genre was basically
built for it, and A Royal…
Truth be told, I’ve always been Team
Doria. When we were all still wondering who would walk Meghan
Markle down the aisle at the Royal Wedding I was hoping that her
mum, Doria Ragland, would be included in the party making its way
through St. George’s Chapel towards Prince Harry on May 19th. But
never in the circumstances that now seem to be emerging. TMZ is
tonight reporting that Thomas Markle…
With just days to go until the Royal
Wedding, we’re getting a feel for how Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle will mix modern and traditional for their marriage at St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 19th. And there are plenty of royal
traditions for them to think about…
The portrait by the Parisian painter
Jean-Marc Nattier of the 17-year-old Princess Isabella of Parma,
(1741-1763) – the best known that was made of her – seems in some
ways to symbolise her short life. Today it is kept in the vast
collection of the Kunsthistorisches…
It is perhaps the most famous royal
wedding dress of them all. The gown worn by Lady Diana Spencer for
her marriage to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales on July 29th, 1981
at St Paul’s Cathedral has its special place in royal history.
Designed by David and Elizabeth Emanual, it came to symbolise the
fairytale wedding that hundreds of millions of people around the
world tuned in to watch. The…
