Firstly, thank you for once again
allowing me the pleasure to discuss another one of your programmes
with Royal Central. My pleasure – I’m glad that your readers are
interested in the work we do at Historic Royal Palaces! You have
given viewers insight in the Royal bedchamber and now the wardrobe.
What do feel was the impetus that sparked the idea for this new
series? Was there a particular…
th, Princess Amalia Gabriela Maria
Theresa of Nassau was born to Prince Felix and Princess Claire of
Luxembourg. She is third in line to the throne of Luxembourg. The
little princess’s birth came nine months after her parents’s
wedding at a historic French basilica in…
In this post, we’ll analyse if the
other European monarchies enjoy the same levels of support as the
British Monarchy and just how things are for the royals on the
continent. Denmark Queen Margrethe of Denmark – the world’s only
other Queen Regnant other than Queen…
A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and
great-aunt of the present Duke of Edinburgh, no one who saw
Princess Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse-Darmstadt gracing the opulent
Romanov Court could have imagined that she would die horrifically
of infected wounds and starvation in a mineshaft in Siberia, or
that she would one day be recognised as a saint by the Russian
Orthodox Church. The second daughter of…
King William IV had one dying wish and
that was to see the anniversary of Waterloo on 18 June. Two days
later on 20 June 1837, The King died around two in the morning at
Windsor Castle. William IV was 71 when he died. It has been noted
that he drank more than a bottle of…
The origin of the Waterloo Ceremony dates
back to the early 19th century. In 1815, Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington, led the British army into battle
against a formidable enemy – the French. The armies met at
Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated, bringing an end…
For royalists, tourists and
history-lovers alike, the palaces which still stand in Britain
today are grand symbols of our past royal courts, kings and
queens. In this new three-part series by BBC Four, historian Dan
Cruickshank will take viewers through the walls of some of the most
prominent palaces in Britain in order to unpick and understand the
significance of these dominating…
A collector, who bought the box at an
auction on a hunch, didn't want to damage the box by opening it so
he instead decided to x-ray it, with the scans revealing hundreds
of tins stuffed with goodies such as chocolate, cigarettes and
sweets. This one box however never…
The gardeners at Historic Royal Palaces
have “planted” the seeds of restoration at Hampton Court Palace and
what has grown is a newly restored Kitchen Garden. The Kitchen
Garden recreates the gardens that would have provided a wide
variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits…
Marcus Serjeant aimed a pistol directly
at Her Majesty as she made her down Horseguards’ Parade for the
beginning of the Trooping the Colour ceremony. The assailant fired
six blank cartridges before being tackled by a Guardsman and
police. The shots startled Burmese, The Queen’s 18 year old horse,
but she was able get Burmese under control within a few seconds.
Her Majesty was only a mere 15…
