British television programme Countryfile
aired a special royal edition last night which focused on The
Queen’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk, exploring how it is run and
letting slip secrets about the monarch’s time there as a child. It
is one of three special episodes going behind the scenes of three
different estates of the monarch – Windsor, Sandringham and
Balmoral – and showcasing her…
The Simpsons has been host to
hundreds of guest stars. As with any long-running popular weekly
series, it has featured many vastly celebrated figures of the
acting world. The show has also been home to the fairly recurrent
instance of public figure cameos. Besides the…
In The World As It Is: A Memoir of the
Obama White House Barack Obama’s former national security advisor,
Ben Rhodes, reveals that the then-President and First Lady of the
United States were in awe when they met The Queen on an official
visit to the UK in May 2011. Rhodes…
One week today in Windsor, and the
wedding day will be here. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tie
the knot in St George’s Chapel – part of the oldest inhabited
castle in the world. We are told that Windsor is 99.9% ready for
the event, as the world’s media begin to pour into this historic
town with the River Thames flowing through. The Castle itself a
focal point towering up in the town…
Many royal watchers and fans dream of
coming face-to-face with a member of the British Royal Family but
there is likely a lot of uncertainty about how to act and what to
do when and if that dream finally comes true. If you’ve ever found
yourself wondering whether or not to…
Global fashion search platform Lyst, has
released a new interactive report exploring 100 years of the royal
fashion effect. Some of the royal influencers included in the
report are Queen Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales, and the
newest royal lady, Ms Meghan Markle. The…
If you think royal baby fever is a new
thing, think again. Back on April 21st 1926, when the Queen was
born, there was plenty of excitement over the arrival of a new
princess who – at the time – was several steps removed from the
Crown and never expected to rule. No matter, as the papers of the
time reported, this royal birth was a major event and those things
we think peculiar to our own time…
There was a royal interlude during an
interview segment on The Late, Late Show with James Corden late
last week, as guests Victoria Beckham and former basketball star
Shaquille O’Neal talked about the royals. “How is designing
Meghan’s dress going? Is it going well?”…
Bid to nominate The Queen for a Nobel Peace Prize to be discussed next week
13th April 2018
In her 66 years on the throne, there
aren’t many accolades or awards The Queen hasn’t received, but next
week during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the topic
of nominating her for a Nobel Peace Prize will be on the table. “It
is being discussed by…
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…
