Fans of Netflix’s £100 million biopic “The Crown” were left sorely disappointed after this year’s BAFTA’s award, with the highly praised serial drama depicting the early reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the show left the ceremony empty handed. Instead, they lost out to the BBC’s police drama “Happy Valley” in the Best Drama category. Sarah Lancashire…
In a diary entry on 12 May 1937, from the then 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York, the future Queen recorded the experience of watching her father’s coronation at Westminster Abbey.
The diary entry opened with the fact that the day saw the young princess awakened at…
Why the royal standard would never reveal clues to “emergency” Buckingham Palace meeting
5th May 2017
While #BuckinghamPalace trended on Twitter and the world waited in a frenzied state for news about the “emergency” meeting called on Thursday, many people turned their eyes to the flag flying over the palace. Though they may have hoped it would reveal a clue as to the…
With yesterday’s announcement from Buckingham Palace that Prince Philip will be retiring from his public role this autumn, talk has quickly turned to what this means for the rest of the family. With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge already planning to relocate to London full-time this fall, the time has clearly come for the younger generations to increasing their contribution to supporting The…
Last Friday, The Queen celebrated her 91st birthday. She kept things low-key this year unlike last year’s three days of celebrations; Her Majesty received numerous messages of congratulations and warm wishes on her birthday on social media. Singer Rihanna also took to…
This month, the campaign group Republic launched the latest of their movements against the British Monarchy, in which they demanded that the Royal Archives be made available to the public and submitted to the National Archives. Led by Robespierre-wannabe Graeme Smith, the…
The Queen is doing her part to help those plagued by famine in East Africa, through making a personal donation.
The undisclosed contribution will seek to alleviate a humanitarian crisis affecting 16 million people -including 800,000 children aged between six months and five years- in each of South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, who are deemed in urgent need for life-saving treatment for…
Today, members of the Royal Family marked Commonwealth Day. We have rounded up some of the best pictures of the day just in case you weren’t there in person!
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This morning The Queen began the official countdown to the 2018 Commonwealth Games when she launched the baton relay at Buckingham Palace, with the Duke of Edinburgh at her side.
The relay will see the baton travel more than 200,000 miles through 71 countries over the next…
Royal Family honour UK Armed Forces as Queen unveils Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial
9th March 2017
The Queen unveiled a memorial in London today, recognising the Armed Forces contribution in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
The stone sculpture, in Victoria Embankment Gardens, features a large, two-sided bronze medallion depicting the memorial’s theme of “duty and service”. Its creator, sculptor Paul Day, said it gave “equal prominence to the civilian and military…
