On 5th October, Sydney will welcome more
than 40 warships into its harbour along with our very own Prince
Harry as the city and the Royal Australian Navy celebrate the
International Fleet Review. Prince Harry is expected to receive a
hats off three cheers royal salute next month from thousands
of sailors as he stands pride of place at Sydney Harbour. It is
expected he will be accompanied by…
Leanda de Lisle is a very in demand
author at the moment – not only does she write for BBC History
Magazine, History Today, The Literary Review and the
Spectator, as well as national newspapers, her latest book
Tudor: The Family Story has just been released and by…
In a newly revealed candid letter written
after the 1936 Abdication Crisis, the Duke of Windsor, formerly
Edward VIII, allegedly reveals how the Royal Family warned him to
stay away from England. The letter, which was written in 1939, said
the Duke was advised to stay away…
“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble
Woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and a King of
England too” (Queen Elizabeth I to her troops at Tilbury) What
springs to mind when you think about Elizabeth I, is it ‘The Virgin
Queen’, ‘Gloriana’ or maybe The Spanish Armada? It’s the last
of these that I want to focus on in this blog today…
You may think that when someone takes a
holiday abroad they may just want to lay back in the sun and relax.
Well for me, I did just that, but what better way to relax in the
sun than with a great book – a great royal history book
at that. Tudor-The Family Story by…
Like millions of others last night, I was
an avid view of the BBC 1 adaptation of ‘The White Queen’, the
reason I choose now to blog on the programme is because of the way
Anne Neville was portrayed in last night’s episode. For some
unknown reason I never…
This fourth blog in the series focuses on
the joint married Monarchs, Queen Mary II and King William III.
Queen Mary being the fifth Monarch of the House of Stuart and King
William being the first Monarch (in England) of the House of
Orange. Mary was born on 30th April 1662 at St James’s Palace to
the future King James II and his first wife Lady Anne Hyde. At the
time of her birth, the…
The second instalment in this series of
blogs focuses on the third Monarch of the House of Stuart, King
Charles II. Charles was born on 29th May 1630 at St James’s Palace
to the reigning King Charles I and his consort Henrietta Maria (who
was in fact the sister of…
As somebody who was not around at the
time of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, in fact somebody
who was born nearly 40 years after her accession, it was amazing to
watch today the whole thing from start to finish. From the
procession to Westminster Abbey, to…
