With lockdown lifted, Brits are looking
forward to meeting their friends and family in parks and gardens
again, and this year a rather unique picnicking venue has presented
itself for your socially distant gatherings. The Royal Collection
Trust announced Wednesday that in addition to offering a select
number of palace tours this year, they’ll be welcoming guests to
Buckingham…
Learn more about Buckingham Palace, Her
Majesty’s London residence, below: Where is it located? Buckingham
Palace is located on The Mall in London. As it is the official and
administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom,
it is widely felt to be…
It’s one of the most recognisable
buildings in the world and an iconic symbol of British royalty, but
while the exterior of Buckingham Palace is familiar to us all, much
of the inside remains a mystery … until now. The official floor
plans of the entire…
A new video from Buckingham Palace shows
work being done to restore the iconic building. More specifically,
the video shows how officials are working to preserve its historic
nineteenth-century wallpaper in the Yellow Drawing Room. The vital
work will protect the wallpaper from getting damaged as nearby
construction work continues as part of the Reservicing programme.
Once the work is…
As Prince Albert reprimanded his second
daughter, Princess Alice, for telling her eldest sister the Crown
Princess, that their father’s illness had worsened, he said sadly
(but correctly): ‘You did wrong. You should have told her I am
dying’. The Prince’s fatalism…
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that a
man was detained in the early hours of this morning in Buckingham
Palace’s forecourt. The 22-year-old man is believed to have climbed
over the fence from the Buckingham Palace Road side of the
building; he was arrested just a few…
The first and only time that the boy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited London occurred between 1764-5, at
about the half-way point of the Mozart family’s monumental European
Grand Tour, which was to prove pivotal in Wolfgang’s developmental
process as a composer, the beginning proper of those childhood
travels he would make on his path towards musical maturity. Over
the fifteen months that…
Fancy getting a front-row seat to some of
the most exclusive occasions in the world? If you’ve got event
planning experience, the Royal Household might just have the job
for you. A vacancy for an events coordinator was posted on their
website, and you don’t even…
Her Majesty The Queen has attended her
first garden party of 2019. Her Majesty was accompanied by
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Wessex,
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester as well as the Duke of York, the
Duke of Kent and Princess…
Sir Andy Murray has received his
knighthood at Buckingham Palace. The tennis star was honoured by
the Prince of Wales with his wife and parents watching on. Sir Andy
was given his knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List at the end
of 2016 for services to tennis and to charity. The announcement
came just months after he claimed his second Wimbledon men’s
singles title and his second…
