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…
The late Princess Margaret’s affair with
a man 17 years her junior has been revealed in the new eight-part
series documenting the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,
titled Elizabeth: Our Queen. Lady Anne Glenconner, one of the late
Countess of Snowden’s closest…
On the 66th anniversary of The Queen’s
accession to the throne, a former lady-in-waiting to The Queen
Mother and a friend of The Queen has revealed the advice that the
Queen Mother passed along to her young daughter. Lady Penn sat down
for a Channel 5 documentary series…
Princess Charlotte is the boss of Prince George, according to The Queen
15th January 2018
The Queen revealed that Princess
Charlotte likes to boss around her older brother Prince George at a
prize ceremony at Sandringham on Sunday. Ten-year-old Emily Clay
received a signed Bible from The Queen for a project she’d made – a
folder about the story of Daniel and the Lions – when she and her
family had the chance to chat with the monarch. Emily’s mother,
Ellen Clay, told reporters…
It has been revealed that The Queen had a
near miss with an assassin, which was then covered up by the New
Zealand government. Christopher John Lewis was only 17 when he shot
at Her Majesty. He had a history of arson, animal torture and
looked up to serial killers such as…
The Queen has beaten out the likes of
Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and TV series such a Game of Thrones to
become the third most visited Wikipedia page in 2017. Her Wikipedia
entry had 19.2 million views, coming behind Donald trump with 29.6
million and a list of Deaths in 2017…
Prince Charles set to take on more royal duties as he cuts charities to fill in for The Queen
2nd January 2018
His Royal Highness Prince Charles
conducted more than 500 royal engagements in 2017 as he
increasingly stepped in to allow The Queen to cut back on her
commitments and travel. It’s now been revealed that as part of his
taking on more royal responsibility from his mother, Prince Charles
will be stepping back from some of his charitable affiliations and
work as he approaches his 70th birthday in…
