Gymnasts from the North-East have been
showing the Princess Royal their impressive moves after she dropped
in to officially open sports centres in Banff and Macduff. And it
wasn’t just the gymnasts who wanted to show Princess Anne what they
were made of; other local…
She was the first of The Queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh’s children to marry and her big day set the
template for the royal celebrations that would follow in its wake.
Princess Anne’s wedding to Mark Phillips, on 14 November 1973, was
a huge state occasion with a massive…
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne has
granted a rare interview to reporter George Alagiah as part of the
BBC’s programme The Queen: Her Commonwealth Story which aired this
week in the UK. The documentary charted the evolution of Her
Majesty’s visits to the Commonwealth countries from her first “tour
of the nations” through to the visits of the 1970s where the
“walkabout” was born. Sir…
A BBC documentary last evening (Monday)
showed the way Queen Elizabeth II toured the Commonwealth both
shortly after her Coronation and all through her reign. Through
those sixty-five years of working with leaders from all over the
world, she has garnered great respect and…
Of all the current Royal Palaces, St
James’s is the most senior and all foreign ambassadors to this
country are still referred to as being appointed to the Court of St
James’. This is perhaps ironic, as the palace was constructed in
the 1530’s by King Henry VIII, as somewhere to escape from the
rigid court life of the Palace of Whitehall. It was built on the
site of a leper hospital…
On Thursday, Her Majesty The Queen
attended the commissioning ceremony for HMS Queen Elizabeth in
Portsmouth. The Queen described the 65,000-tonne carrier as the
“best of British”, suitable as the ship is the largest ever for the
Royal Navy. Her Majesty was…
From the moment you step through the
Buckingham Palace gates and join the crowds on the lawn you know
you’re at the start of a very special experience. With ladies and
gents in their finest and a sea of top hats and fascinators in
every direction, there’s a palpable air of excitement. The gates
open at 3 and guests were invited to stroll through private gardens
usually only seen by…
