Two weeks tomorrow will be the 31st
October, more popularly known as Halloween or All Hallows Eve or
All Saints Eve, everyone has a different name for it. Anne Boleyn
is said to haunt the Tower of London. There are many popular
traditions at Halloween; trick or treating, apple bobbing and
carving a pumpkin. But Royal Central wanted to get in on the act
and give our readers two weeks worth of…
This coming Thursday, His Royal Highness
Prince Philip will be attending the Trafalgar Dinner at the In and
Out, Naval and Military Club. The dinner is part of the “big three”
formal dinners each year in honour of the battles of
Waterloo and Trafalgar and the Club’s…
As we continue to spotlight various
Patronages that members of The Royal Family currently hold, today’s
piece will focus on Her Majesty The Queen’s role as Patron of the
Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund (EABF). The origins of the
EABF began way back on December…
Royal watchers around the world will be
delighted – the Dutch Royal Household has just relaunched its
official website. The brand new format at www.koninklijkhuis.nl can
also be accessed in an English language version at
www.royal-house.nl. And one of the ways this royal family announced
the changes was by taking to Twitter. King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands The relaunch…
Charles, son of Charles I and Henrietta
Maria of France on 29 May 1630 in St James’s Palace. He became The
Prince of Wales at the age of eight but was never formally invested
with honours of his position. Charles was twelve when the English
Civil War broke out between the…
Readers will already know of the strong
links between Handel and King George I, which have been already
widely explored. What is less known, however, is the influence of
another figure in the background who though certainly less talked
about, in her lifetime enjoyed a…
On this day, in 1344, a little girl was
born to a famous king and queen. She entered the expected role of a
royal daughter from birth as her future husband, an important
political ally, was already living in the regal nursery she would
call home. This royal baby spent her life preparing to marry and
make an alliance that would strengthen her father’s power and she
is best known to history…
William III and Mary II are an odd couple
in British royal history. They are our only joint sovereigns, so
far, and they swept to power in a series of events that were
romantically named the ‘Glorious Revolution’. The deal they did
with parliament to make themselves…
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Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married
King Louis XII of France on October 9th 1514 On this day, 501 years
ago, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married the French
king, Louis XII. The spectacular ceremony in Abbeville in
Northern France transformed Mary into the Queen of France. No
other English princess held that title after her. In fact,
only one other daughter of a King of England…
