Features

The little known rule that stopped King Charles and Queen Camilla marrying in their first choice venue

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4th April 2025
When King Charles & Queen Camilla announced their engagement in February 2005, they wasted no time in setting a date or venue for their marriage. They immediately told the world they would marry in April that year in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle followed by a service of blessing at St. George’s Chapel later the same day. Yet just a week later, they had to move their civil marriage out of…
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British Royals

The mysterious tiara that's become a go to for queens and princesses

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22nd March 2025
The Royal Family often earmarks a tiara for one member to wear throughout their life. However, there are a few tiaras that have been worn by multiple members. The mysterious Five Aquamarine Tiara is one of those shared pieces.  The Five Aquamarine Tiara, also referred to as the Aquamarine Ribbon Tiara, features a high frame with five large oval aquamarines each surrounded by diamond…
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Features

The difficult history of meetings between the British Monarch and the Pope

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7th February 2025
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make a State Visit to the Holy See in April. It is an historic moment as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England meets the Pontiff. For centuries, following Henry VIII’s break with Rome, the idea of a British monarch and a Pope meeting was impossible. But that all changed in the 20th century, as meetings – at first private, began to take place.
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Queen Elizabeth II

A moment of history in the first Christmas speech of Queen Elizabeth II

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24th December 2024
For our last lookback at Royal Christmas Broadcasts throughout the years, we are looking at one of the most historic Christmas speeches: Queen Elizabeth II’s first Christmas address as monarch in 1952.  When Princess Elizabeth set out with her husband for a six month Commonwealth tour on behalf of her father. King George VI, on 31 January 1952, she did not know that within days, she would be…
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