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…
One of Diana, Princess of Wales’s most famous outfits is going on show at the Diana: Her Fashion Story exhibition at Kensington Palace later this month.
For the first time ever, members of the public will be able to see the flak jacket, shirt and Armani chinos worn by the…
Princess Louise and the Fife Tiara
31st March 2018
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…
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…
Meghan Markle closes her social media accounts
9th January 2018
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…
All the Royals Who Live at Kensington Palace
10th December 2017
Kensington Palace was, in its original form, a Jacobean mansion built in 1605, and bought by William and Mary in 1689. They directed Sir Christopher Wren to renovate and expand the building, and Wren added a three-storey pavilion at each corner to create more space for the…
120 people arrested outside Buckingham Palace & Kensington Palace in past five years
4th September 2017
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…
Yesterday, Princes William and Harry visited the White Garden at Kensington Palace where a new statue in honour of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales will be erected 20 years after her death. The Duchess of Cambridge, who never knew her would-be mother-in-law also joined…
The Duchess of Cambridge has appointed Catherine Quinn to be her new Private Secretary, replacing Rebecca Priestley who leaves in the Summer. But who is Ms Quinn, and what will she bring to The Royal Family?
Photo Credit: Saïd Business School,
Catherine Quinn is currently…
Looking at the birth of Queen Victoria
1st August 2017
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…