The short royal garden party season has
come to a close for 2022. The Prince of Wales, the Earl and
Countess of Wessex, and The Princess Royal hosted guests at the
Palace of Holyroodhouse for the final party of the season. The
Royal Family did not travel just for the party, members of the
family are in Scotland to mark the annual Holyrood week. Taking
place between the end of June and the…
Amid a heatwave, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge made their 2022 Royal Ascot debut as they led the Royal
Family in a procession at the iconic horse race. The Duke was
dressed in a top hat and tailcoat, while the Duchess opted for a
polka dot dress by Alessandra Rich.
The Duchess of Cornwall will make a royal
debut as she is installed as a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter. Her appointment was announced at the end of 2021.
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was established in 1348 by
Edward III. Appointments to it are…
Fresh from her Platinum Jubilee
celebrations, Her Majesty The Queen has made two new appointments
to the Order of the Thistle, the highest honour in Scotland. One of
the appointments is The Right Honorable Dame Elish Angiolini QC.
Born in 1960, Elish is a Scottish lawyer who served as Lord
Advocate of Scotland between 2006 and 2011. She was the first woman
to hold the post. She was also the…
The outside of Buckingham Palace is
getting ready for a concert to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. But
if you walk past, you’ll notice a new addition to palace grounds,
the “Tree of Trees.” The 21-meter-tall tree was put in place days
before it will be…
In November 1992, Her Majesty The Queen
would once again make history (as she has done many times
throughout her reign) as she became the first British monarch to
pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. Earlier in 1992,
Prime Minister John Major informed the…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee emblem is
taking centre stage in a new, limited exhibition at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in South Kensington. The display will celebrate
the creativity of the young aspiring designers and the number of
submissions for emblems to mark the 70th anniversary of The Queen’s
reign. It will also feature previous Jubilee emblem designs. Run in
accordance…
We are just weeks away from the Platinum
Jubilee and while shops are selling mugs, shirts, and bunting,
those commemorative items do not equate to the size of the souvenir
that the Princess Royal recently unveiled. The Princess visited Ely
Cathedral in Cambridgeshire to…
Adding on to the Platinum Jubilee
celebrations, the Elephant Family is hosting an exhibition and
putting the conservation of elephants firsthand. Seven giant
egg-shaped pieces of art will be on pop-up display around Sloane
Square in London’s Chelsea from 16 May to…
As Royal Central continues to highlight
important moments during Her Majesty’s reign and all of the key
moments, perhaps it is one of the most significant changes to power
during The Queen’s 70-year-reign, the devolution of the United
Kingdom. Devolution is the process of transferring the power and
funding from a national to a local government. This process allows
decisions to be made…
