As the Royal 2010s come to an end, the
team at Royal Central are looking back at the highlights of the
decade just gone. Brittani Barger, Moniek Bloks and Lydia Starbuck
are joined by Laura Faurot, Oskar Aanmoen, Sydney Zatz, Jess Ilse
and Kristin Contino as they try to pick their standout moments of
the royal years just gone. We’d love to hear from you, too. Share
your favourite memory…
It was the last major royal wedding of
the 20th century and it began a new chapter in a royal story that
would lead to a throne. On December 4th 1999, the then heir to the
Belgian throne, Philippe, married Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz before a
host of regal guests. The…
This month marks the 150th anniversary of
the birth of Queen Maud of Norway. There British royal became a
queen in 1905 but her path to a throne began nine years earlier
when she married her cousin in a very Victorian wedding. However,
the seemingly run of the mill royal…
On this day, 72 years ago, newspaper
readers woke up to the story of a young prince and his friends
partying ahead of one of the biggest royal weddings of them all.
For on the night before he said ‘I do’ to the future queen, Prince
Philip enjoyed a stag night and it was caught on camera. OK, there
are no drinking games for you to pore over here. But as he prepared
to wed a monarch in…
After the wedding of Princess Elizabeth
and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at 11:30 am in Westminster Abbey
on 20 November 1947, the bridal gifts given to Princess Elizabeth
were exhibited at St James’s Palace, numbering over 2,500. Like the
gifts, Princess Elizabeth’s…
The countdown to the royal wedding of
2020 is already under way even if the happy couple haven’t shared
that many details of their big day so far. Princess Beatrice and
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi announced their engagement in September and
will take their vows next year.
It’s the hat that everyone wants to see
and we’ll get another go in 2020. Princess Beatrice is set to marry
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in 2020 which means plenty of speculation
about the bride’s dress, the wedding tiara and her granny’s hat.
Yes, one of the style moments of all recent royal nuptials has been
the Queen’s choice of outfit. As a new royal wedding countdown
begins, Royal Central…
A year ago today, Princess Eugenie and
Jack Brooksbank were married in a ceremony at St. George’s Chapel,
Windsor. And while the couple are celebrating behind closed doors,
the royals are marking the occasion with some previously unseen
footage of the wedding on their…
While all anniversaries are special to
the couple involved, some get far more attention than others. The
biggies, the landmarks, the ones ending in a 5 or a zero usually
get everyone reminiscing and that’s never more true than with a
royal wedding. In 2019, regal couples…
A plaque can be found in the garrison
walls at Portsmouth at the location of the old ‘Sally Port’. Its
patriotic inscription proclaims that “from this place naval
heroes innumerable were embarked to fight their country’s battles”
but that also, “near this spot, Catharine of Braganza landed in
state, May 14 1662 previous to her marriage with Charles II at the
Domus Dei a week…
