Longevity, popularity and, above all,
impartiality. Over more than 63 years, Elizabeth II has been an
embodiment of a monarchy that always puts people first. Her
frequent engagements with her subjects and unrelenting willingness
to listen to them have distinguished her from some passive royals
and other despotic ones across the world. Throughout their reign,
her predecessors made sure they were…
The Duke of Gloucester has a busy day
ahead of him Thursday in Cambridge. He will open the Royal Library
Exhibition at Cambridge University and also a newly restored
18th-century Watermill at Mill House. The last engagement of the
day leads him to Hinchingbrooke School…
Queen Victoria’s grandaughter’s heart to be laid to rest after seven decades
29th September 2015
Marie of Romania in 1936, by Philip de
László Queen Marie of Romania’s heart has been in the Natural
Museum of Romanian History since 1971 in a silver box. Now, it’s
finally going home to Pelisor Castle which she loved and where she
lived and died on 18 July…
Preview: Queen Victoria's Empire- The Moral Crusade/The Scramble for Africa
21st September 2015
Portrait photograph of Queen Victoria
dressed for the wedding of The Duke and Duchess of Albany. Coming
up on September 22, Canada and the United States will be treated to
an airing of Queen Victoria- The Moral Crusade/The Scramble for
Africa. Despite Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s lifestyle of
tradition, the couple had a much livelier side. On such example is
Victoria enjoyed the…
“The important thing is not what they
think of me, but what I think of them.” – Queen Victoria She is
this country’s second longest-reigning Monarch, and she reigned
over a grand industrial age for Britain as well as a British Empire
that stretched…
Business as usual: The Queen celebrates day of longest reign during Scottish Borders visit
9th September 2015
The Queen has signalled that it is
business as usual on the day she becomes Britain’s longest-reigning
monarch, visiting and opening Scotland’s new Borders Railway at a
ceremony in Tweedbank Station this afternoon. The Queen speaks to
Alyson Weir, Headteacher at…
Many of us have been watching the myriad
of posts regarding Queen Elizabeth being set to exceed Queen
Victoria as Britain’s longest reigning monarch on Wednesday, 9th
September. The Queen pictured here in 2012 when she visited The
Bank of England. By the Numbers To start at the beginning of their
respective reigns, Queen Victoria acceded to the throne at the
tender age of 18. She had been born…
The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
20th August 2015
Princess Beatrice was born Beatrice
Leopoldine Victoria on 20 April 1884 at Eastwell Park in Kent. She
was the youngest child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of
Russia. Her father was the second son…
In our present series on Royal Central,
we are looking back at the women who were granddaughters of Queen
Victoria. In some ways, their diverse and often surprising lives
are the legacies of the great queen. A queen whose reign as longest
reigning monarch in British history…
Everybody will remember the magnitude of
celebrations commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth
II in 2012. From the River Thames pageant to the concert outside
Buckingham Palace and especially the extended Bank Holiday weekend.
Let’s not forget though that The Queen’s great-great-grandmother,
Queen Victoria, was also a Monarch, who celebrated 60 years on the
throne, and…
