Prince & Princess of WalesQueen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth flies into London to meet Prince Louis

Her Majesty The Queen flew into Kensington Palace yesterday to meet Prince Louis for the first time. The Queen took the 40-minute helicopter trip into London from Windsor Castle where she has been staying with Prince Philip while he recovers from his hip operation.  Prince Louis is Queen Elizabeth’s sixth great-grandchild and third child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. While it was…
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Princess Louise and the Fife Tiara

Amongst the splendid suite of jewels commissioned for Queen Victoria by Prince Albert, features in the permanent exhibition Victoria Revealed at Kensington Palace, when it re-opened in full on 30 March 2018, two magnificent tiaras which were formerly owned by Louise…
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Rooms that make history: Mary II and The Queen’s Bed Chamber at Kensington Palace

One of English history’s ‘forgotten’ queens, is actually one who was arguablyamong the most loved. This was Mary II, the joint monarch – not queen consort of William III. Forgiven by posterity for deposing her father, contemporary history seems to have accepted this as being something of a regrettable necessity to safeguard England as a Protestant nation. Known for her love of…
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The Sussexes

Meghan Markle closes her social media accounts

There was a small glimmer of hope that Meghan Markle would bring an inside look to the British Royal Family through her social media accounts, much to the same way some of the European families function. Alas, that hope has been extinguished as Kensington Palace has…
Palaces & Buildings

120 people arrested outside Buckingham Palace & Kensington Palace in past five years

Scotland Yard have recently revealed that there have been 120 arrests made outside Buckingham and Kensington Palaces in the last five years alone. The Sun newspaper obtained the information under the Freedom of Information Act. With an average of 24 incidents per year on the two key palace grounds, the police and security teams have their work cut out for them in order to make sure the royal…
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Looking at the birth of Queen Victoria

It is hard to imagine British history without Queen Victoria. So deeply has she made an impression on British history andbestowed her name upon anera that we could be momentarily forgiven for thinking that she had always existed. During her reign, she oversaw a period of unprecedented national change and industrial advancement, dying just a year after the turn of the 20th century, yet…
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