The State Visit that was cancelled last
year due to the corruption scandal will now take place from 12-14
July. King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain will visit Her Majesty
at Buckingham Palace later this month. The last State Visit from
Spain to the UK was quite some time ago, in 1986 to be exact
by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. In 1998, Queen Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh went to…
Princess Anne has visited China’s
Forbidden City during a five-day tour of the country which began on
Monday. The most senior woman in China, Madame Liu Yandong,
showed The Princess Royal around the historic Forbidden City. The
visit falls on the 45th Anniversary of…
French court delays verdict over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge
4th July 2017
The French court in Nanterre has
postponed a ruling on whether France’s Closer magazine should pay
up to €1.5 million (£1.3m) in damages for publishing topless
photos of the Duchess of Cambridge. The verdict was due today, but
it has now been postponed until…
Queen Elizabeth will take private audience with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
4th July 2017
Tomorrow, Queen Elizabeth will hold a
private audience with Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau. Since
becoming Prime Minster in 2015, The Queen and the Prime Minister
have met once. The meeting was held at Buckingham Palace just after
Trudeau and the Liberal Party won the Canadian elections. This time
around their meeting will take place at Holyrood Palace in
Edinburgh, Scotland as Her Majesty…
The Princess Royal has begun a week-long
tour of the People’s Republic of China where she will visit the
capital and other large Chinese cities. Princess Anne arrived in
the country on Monday for a five-day stay, where she will conduct
engagements in Beijing, Wuhan…
Swan Upping, an annual ceremony dating
back to the twelfth century, will start on the 17th of July. Swan
Upping is a yearly census of the swan population along the River
Thames. Announcing the schedule for this year journey along the
River Thames was the Queen’s Swan…
The Duchess of Cambridge has arrived at
Wimbledon for the first day of the world famous tennis
championship. The Duchess is attending in the capacity of Patron of
Wimbledon, a position she took over from The Queen last year.
Wimbledon was one of 25 organisations Her Majesty stood down from
in December 2016 due to her advancing age and the gradual decline
in her workload. It was no surprise that…
It has been announced that Prince George
and Princess Charlotte will be joining their parents for a visit to
Germany and Poland later this month. The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge will visit the two European countries between the 17th
and 21st of July. This will be the first…
Prince George and Princess Charlotte may
have had curious questions as they visited the grave of their late
grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her
56th birthday. The young royals joined their parents and uncle
Harry in a private service on…
It is Canada’s 150th birthday, and the
Queen of Canada is celebrating the special occasion with a new
Canada-themed portrait. Sitting on an ornate gold-coloured chair
and wearing a pale gold dress, Her Majesty sported a platinum
Canadian maple-leaf brooch on her left shoulder, a piece of
jewellery she inherited from her mother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother. The portrait was taken by…
