This month, Westminster Abbey became a
royal wedding venue for the first time in centuries when Princess
Patricia of Connaught married there. She was the church’s first
royal bride in over 500 years. As the centenary of her wedding
approaches, Royal Central is looking at the role this famous church
has played in royal history. And today we’re looking back at all of
the regal weddings held…
Princess Eugenie of York is just days
away from marrying her partner, Jack Brooksbank, in a ceremony at
St. George’s Chapel, Windsor and as she says ‘I do’ she’ll join an
ever growing list of HRHs who have wed men with no royal title of
their own.
A royal wedding just wouldn’t be a royal
wedding without a tiara or three. But when the then Princess
Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh on November 20th 1947, she
almost missed out on wearing the diadem on which she’d set her
heart. For just before the bride was set to leave for Westminster
Abbey, her tiara snapped in two. The diamond disaster happened as
the future Queen was…
This morning, Her Majesty The Queen,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, opened The Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey. The exhibition will display
over 300 treasures from Westminster Abbey’s collection, spanning
its 1000 years of history. The new…
In addition to the handful of tombs of
England’s medieval kings and their queens consort clustered close
to or around the great shrine of Edward the Confessor at
Westminster Abbey, one royal vault is quite unlike the rest. Some
tombs are harder to find in the first…
The Coronation of Elizabeth II on June
2nd 1953 is often spoken of as the moment that a new era began. It
was a moment of history and just the sixth time a queen regnant had
been crowned in England’s history. As Royal Central marks 65 years
since the Queen’s Coronation, here’s a look back at the crowning of
England’s other female rulers. Mary I Mary I became the first
woman…
First and foremost, we think of bells as
something we hear and don’t see. The bells of Westminster Abbey now
mingle in between the great soundscape of London noise and the busy
restlessness of Westminster, blending the secular with the divine,
much as they have done for…
It was filled with special symbolism for
the bride and groom and became a popular favourite,
too. The dress worn by the then Sarah Ferguson for her
marriage to Prince Andrew on July 23rd 1986 at Westminster Abbey is
still one of the most talked about royal weddings gowns…
It’s the cake that keeps on giving. The
flower strewn bake that took centre stage at the wedding of the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on April 29th 2011 still makes its
presence felt with slices of it popping up at auction with what
seems like an almost metronomic regularity. But then there was
plenty to go round as this was a whopper of a cake. Standing eight
tiers tall and weighing in at over…
