“Mary Queen of Scots”. These were the
words I overheard from a visitor, passing their comment on the
magnificent canopy tomb in the south aisle of the Lady Chapel at
Westminster Abbey, erected on the orders of James I to house the
remains of his mother, transferred from their first burial place of
Peterborough Cathedral to the Abbey in 1612. However, tombs can
tell only part of the truth…
“That’s the tomb of Queen Elizabeth the
First”; this was the remark I heard when I last visited Henry VII’s
Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. These words –unquestionably
correct – confirm that here was the tomb of…
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were
among several members of The Royal Family who attended a
Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday. Embed from
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Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall…
Stained-glass window of Her Majesty to be designed by David Hockney for Westminster Abbey
23rd November 2016
Westminster Abbey announced on Tuesday,
22 November that influential contemporary painter David Hockney has
accepted an invitation to design a stained-glass window at the
Abbey to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Though the Abbey
will provide input, Mr Hockney will have artistic control over the
design and in a statement posted on the Westminster Abbey website
alongside the announcement…
At 11:30am on 20 November 1947 Princess
Elizabeth wed Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty
The Queen and Prince Philip first met in 1939 when she was the
thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth and he was eighteen-year-old
naval Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.
Westminster Abbey has been entwined with
royalty since its foundation. All but two coronations have taken
place there, as have 16 royal weddings (beginning with that of King
Henry I of England to Matilda of Scotland, and most recently that
of the Duke and Duchess of…
Queen makes alternative entrance at State Opening of Parliament for first time in 63 years
18th May 2016
In the most public concession yet
of her age, The Queen took a lift to the Robing Room
in the Palace of Westminster for this morning’s State Opening
of Parliament, the first time in her 63 years of attending. The
90-year-old monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh,
94, avoided the 26 steps of the Sovereign’s staircase, in
a move described by aides as a “modest…
Prince Harry is to attend a Service
of Commemoration at Westminster Abbey later today, to remember
the victims of the two terrorist attacks in Tunisia in 2015. The
Prince, attending on behalf of The Queen, will join
the family members of those who lost loved ones, who…
The time-old coronation ceremony of
monarchs could be set to change, following the publication of an
inquiry into modern religious observance. A report from the
Commision on Religion and Belief in British Public Life has
recommended the ceremony should encompass the diverse…
Mary Queen of Scots was born on 8
December 1542, at Linlithgow Palace, incidentally the birthplace of
her father, James V of Scotland, in West Lothian, some fifteen
miles distance from Edinburgh. The palace’s name translates
literally as the “loch in the damp hollow” and still overlooks a
inland loch. Today it ismaintained by Historic Scotland and was the
residence of…
