The Royal Family is well-known for their
love of animals. But the royal’s interest in pigeons and racing?
Yes, there is royal love for all creatures great and small, and the
sport of pigeon racing is part of it. King George VI and family
with Mr J Walter Jones at the Royal Lofts in 1937. The Queen is now
investing in a new pigeon loft on her Sandringham estate. The
rotting pigeon loft is in need…
It might be August and the height of
summer but already minds are turning to bringing in the harvest and
the apple haul this year will be rather varied – thanks to The
Prince of Wales. Charles has been growing a wide range of rare and
historic apples to help try and…
New photo exhibition shows Queen, Camilla and William in remarkable mirrored portraits
1st August 2015
A new exhibition which begins this
month at Eleven in London titled The Queen’s People
is set to show some of Britain’s high office holders in their
traditional outfits, using a photographic technique inspired by
17th century portrait painting. The collection of…
Arriving by carriage as per tradition,
The Prince of Wales attended the 134th Sandringham Flower Show with
The Duchess of Cornwall on Wednesday. Prince Charles has been
Patron of the Sandringham Estate Cottage Horticultural Society
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Sandringham Flower Show is one of the most celebrated horticultural
events in the East of…
The Prince of Wales visited The Old
Prison in Northleach on Tuesday meeting volunteers and members of
The Friends of the Cotswolds. The site was built in the 1790s as
the Northleach House of Correction, one of four houses of
correction in Gloucestershire. Built in the 1790s…
Founded in 1891 by Colonel William Hoar,
Trinity Hospice was established to care, in his words, “for the man
who is neither curable nor incurable, but simply dying”. The Queen
Mother served as its Royal Patron for 76 years. The Duchess of
Cornwall became the Royal Patron…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
travelled to Portsmouth on Sunday to watch the second day of racing
at the America’s Cup World Series, though were left disappointed
after the event was abandoned due to extreme weather. Plans for
William and Kate were hastily changed and the royal couple
eventually made the most of their day on the South Coast. View
image | gettyimages.com An official…
On Thursday The Princess Royal made a
special stop at RAF Brize Norton, where she serves as honorary air
commodore, to bestow a new standard to honour the reformation of
the No. LXX, (70), Squadron. The Princes Royal at RAF Brize Norton.
The Squadron stood down five years…
Cirencester welcomed a very special
visitor on Friday as The Prince of Wales paid a visit to the town
to present graduates from the Royal Agricultural University with
their degrees. The graduation ceremony took place at St John the
Baptist’s Church in Market Place and was…
On Tuesday, Princess Alexandra paid a
visit to the famous Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest. Affectionately
known as ‘Queen Vic’, she opened the building’s newest expansion –
the Simco Wing, added in time for the Queen Vic’s 175th
anniversary. Princess Alexandra pictured here 11th September 2014.
The Simco Wing cost £1.2 million to construct, and is named after
the former general secretary…
