Prince George was not with his parents on
their last engagements although he did receive a plush police dog
and mock New Zealand Police uniform. Perhaps George too one day
will say he wants to be a police officer when he grows up just as
his father did when he was a young lad. George has only been seen
twice during the first part of William and Kate’s tour, once on the
tarmac at Wellington…
The 16-metre-high clock tower in Seymour
Square was completed in 1928, and is Marlborough’s monument to pay
tribute to the locals who died in the First World War. The War
Memorial and Clock Tower was unveiled in Seymour Square, Blenheim
in 1928 and serves as the…
They will now go on to Government House,
home to the Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae and his wife Lady
Janine. On the lawn in front of the House, the couple will receive
a Powhiri, which is Maori for Ceremonial Welcome. The formal
ceremony closes with Prince William…
Cab driver John Sheen, who has been
driving for 45 years, drove Charles from Clarence House to the St
Bartholomew today. This was the third time in his career he has
driven the Prince. For his service, Charles gave Mr Sheen a £10
note and commented that he had a “jolly trip in the taxi,” per MSN
online. This will be the third £10 note he plans to add to his
framed collection. Back in 2004 he…
On 3 April 1987 the late Duchess of
Windsor’s jewellery fetched £31m ($50m) at auction in Switzerland.
The sum was six times the expected figure projected the collection
would garner. It was said that 1,000 bidders and 300 members of the
media packed into an enormous tent…
Princess Eugenie of York, Patron of the
RNOH Charity’s Redevelopment Appeal, visited the hospital on
Wednesday to formally open its new state-of-the-art Children’s High
Dependency Unit. “It’s wonderful to come back and see the new Unit,
and the fantastic work the…
Hanoverians: The First Georges which will
air on BBC Four this month. The First Georgians presenter portrait.
First of all let me thank you for taking the time and say what an
honour it is to interview you. No way! That’s just so unbelievably
courteous of you. It’s entirely my pleasure! As Curator for the
Historic Royal Palaces, one can imagine that there must be so many
things that provide…
The Prince of Wales, a long-time devotee
of the Welsh harp tradition, has given a harp to the Wales
International Harp Festival. The international event takes place
next month in Caernarvon. The harp is the national instrument of
Wales. The Telynau Teifi harp made by…
It was heralded as “one of the biggest
archaeological finds in history,” according to The Leicester
Mercury. The remains of Richard III that was discovered in a
Greyfriars car park in February 2013 is now in question. Professor
Michael Hicks the head of history at the…
Led by Rosemary Ussher, a group of
Windsor residents raised £200,000 to fund the construction and
installation a statue of a pair of Her Majesty’s Windsor Grey
horses on the roundabout. “The Jubilee fountain in the Goswells
looks fantastic and when the Windsor Greys is complete it will be
wonderful to have two tributes to The Queen both ends of town,” Mrs
Ussher commented to The Royal…
