Written for Royal Central by Heaven Lee
Miller When the news broke that Prince Carl Philip of Sweden was
dating former reality show participant and model Sofia Hellqvist, a
flood of criticism followed. Many doubted that this most unlikely
romance would be sealed by marriage. Today, Prince Carl Philip and
Princess Sofia celebrate ten years of marriage. The prince who fell
in love with a…
If ever a wedding dress summed up its wearer, it was the gown worn by Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
4th June 2025
If ever a royal wedding dress summed up
its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie Rhys-Jones for her
marriage to Prince Edward on 19 June 1999 at St George’s Chapel,
Windsor. Subtle, elegant and classic, this was the final Windsor
bridal dress of the 20thcentury…
It’s not the most talked about royal
wedding of all time but the marriage that took place on a cold,
January day in 1967 has proved to be an important one for the Dutch
Royal Family. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, aunt of the
current monarch King Willem-Alexander…
Princess Ines of Sweden will be
christened on a very special day – the tenth wedding anniversary of
her parents. Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia will gather
friends and family together for the baptism of their fourth child
at Drottningholm Palace Chapel on June 13 2025, exactly ten years
after their marriage. Princess Ines will be baptised on a very
special date for her…
King Charles and Queen Camilla had two ceremonies on their wedding day and that meant two hats for the bride
9th April 2025
Queen Camilla had not one but two royal
wedding outfits for her marriage to King Charles III on April 9th
2005, and that meant two hats. Twenty years on, those style picks
remain as classic as they did on the royal wedding day. For the
civil ceremony, at the Guildhall in…
The time Queen Elizabeth II stopped a cheeky cigarette break at an historic royal wedding
4th April 2025
They were two of the guests of honour at
one of the most historic of royal weddings but they were still
stopped in their tracks as they attempted to pop outside for a
quick smoke. Tom Parker Bowles and his sister, Laura, were in the
middle of the celebrations marking the…
The little known rule that stopped King Charles and Queen Camilla marrying in their first choice venue
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…
The hidden message in Queen Camilla's wedding flowers that told her groom ''I can't live without you''
3rd April 2025
The wedding bouquet carried by Queen
Camilla on her wedding day, April 9th 2005 were a riot of early
blooms that matched her pale blue and gold dress to perfection. But
the flowers were also filled with personal touches that had their
own place in a royal romance that made…
It’s become one of the big questions in
the run up to a royal marriage – which tiara will the bride wear?
It’s now an accepted part of any Windsor wedding and the decision
of Princess Beatrice to wear the same tiara as Elizabeth II did for
her big day is…
It’s a royal repeat as the wedding of
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima is set to feature
prominently in the Dutch television series Máxima. In an interview
with Variety magazine, one of the preeminent entertainment trade
magazines, Máxima’s show creators revealed that the royal wedding
would be a major plotline for the second season. “In the first
episode, she thinks: ‘O.K…
