The Royal Family has taken to social
media ahead of England’s semi-final Euro Cup match against the
Netherlands. On X, the Royal Family has shared a video of the Band
of the Grenadier Guards playing “Three Lions/ Football’s Coming
Home” outside Buckingham Palace on Wednesday morning with the
caption “Wishing the best of luck to England in tonight’s game!”.
This comes…
A fresh focus on literacy for Queen Camilla
10th July 2024
Queen Camilla visited Moreland Primary
School on Tuesday to see a Coronation Library in place. The Queen
was out to celebrate a milestone for the National Literacy Trust’s
Coronation Library campaign, a part of the Libraries for Primaries
initiative that hopes to…
The King was able to award one of his
favourite musicians with a significant honour at Windsor Castle but
the star admitted later that she’d been so excited, she’d forgotten
a staple of royal meetings. King Charles made Dame Shirley Bassey a
Companion of…
The King will start a new tradition when
he visits an island that still addresses him by one of his oldest
titles. King Charles and Queen Camilla are due to visit Jersey in
the coming days. But the usual welcome given to the Monarch on the
biggest of the Channel Islands has undergone a subtle shift. It’s
long been the custom for the Sovereign to be presented with two
dead ducks when…
An ancient dukedom that left royal brothers at war
9th July 2024
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are
about to make their first visit to the Channel Islands since the
accession and start of a new reign and they will encounter some
special traditions there. Among them is a different way of
addressing His Majesty. In Jersey and Guernsey…
Prince William can't hide his nerves as England's crunch Euros match against Switzerland ends in penalties
6th July 2024
The Prince of Wales couldn’t hide his
nerves as he watched the crunch Euros match that sent England into
the semi-finals of the tournament. Prince William was at the
quarter final between England and Switzerland in Dusseldrof and
watched with his head in his hands…
It’s one of the most striking of all
royal tiaras, only ever worn by queens, and chosen for some of the
most important events in the regal calendar. The ruby and diamond
diadem belonging to the Royal Family is one of the most famous in
the world but it began as a good luck gift. Queen Camilla wore it
most recently for the State Banquet for the Emperor and Empress of
Japan but she had…
Rishi Sunak has met King Charles and
offered his resignation as Prime Minister. His Majesty accepted the
resignation. The two held a short audience at Buckingham Palace
just before 11am on July 5th, hours after Mr Sunak conceded the
general election. Rishi…
The State Opening of Parliament will take
place in just under two weeks’ time. The speech that The King reads
from the throne will be written by his incoming Labour
administration. Sir Keir Starmer’s party has taken power after a
landslide victory in the…
Prince Edward's other Scottish title
4th July 2024
The Duke of Edinburgh has just received
an important honour on a visit to his titular city. During his time
in Edinburgh, Prince Edward was made a member of the Order of the
Thistle. It comes just over a year after the prince was created
Duke of Edinburgh by his brother, King Charles III, fulfilling a
promise made a quarter of a century earlier. However, Edward also
holds another, much less famous…

