British Royals

The stunning emerald tiara left by a duchess with no heir

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28th June 2025
Queen Victoria’s jewellery collection was immense but has been widely scattered throughout her descendants. Prince Albert created many pieces and parures for her, including a striking emerald and diamond set.In 1843, Prince Albert designed a set of emerald and diamond pieces for his wife- it includes a necklace featuring large square emeralds surrounded by diamonds, a pair of earrings…
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The King who clung on to make a queen

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22nd June 2025
King William IV, known as the Sailor King, inherited the throne when his elder brother, George IV, died in 1830 with no surviving heirs. Although William had no legitimate children of his own, he still did everything he could to help the young woman he wanted to take the…
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The race against time for the birth of a future queen

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24th May 2025
Just over 200 years ago, the future Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, Her arrival, on 24 May 1819, marked the start of a very famous story. While the healthy baby girl was happily welcomed by her parents, the family had been forced to race against the clock for Victoria’s birth. Her father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent was the fifth child and fourth son of King George III and…
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Queen Victoria's tragic aunt who fought to escape a miserable royal marriage

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7th April 2025
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are considered by many to have had of the most successful of all royal marriages. However, many of their relatives were not so lucky in love. Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the sister of Victoria, Queen Victoria’s mother, and Ernest, Prince Albert’s father. Given that she came from a relatively small German duchy, she made what should have…
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The royal records broken by Queen Elizabeth II

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28th August 2024
She was the longest reigning Monarch in British history and the only one to mark a Platinum Jubilee. But these weren’t the only royal records broken by Queen Elizabeth II. Her reign was truly historic and featured monarchical milestones which might never be matched again.Oldest British MonarchOn 21 December 2007, Elizabeth passed her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to…
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