The royals are known for their love of keeping animals, and King Charles has recently added to the long list of royal pets. He has adopted 31 new feathered friends from a charity that re-homes commercial laying hens. Queen Victoria had a beloved Collie named Sharp who supported her through …
Read More »King Edward VIII was famed for his vanity. As a young man he flouted tradition by wearing the latest fashions, especially flannel trousers with sports coats, ‘turn-ups’ on his trousers and plus-fours for golf. His distinctive way of fixing his necktie has gone down in the history books as the …
Read More »The Princess of Wales has received a unique honour from the King in recognition of her years of public service after being appointed to The Order of the Companions of Honour. Kate, 42, has been made a Royal Companion of the organisation, which was founded by King George V in …
Read More »The Royal Family is no stranger to a crisis. It has been been rocked by scandals, extra-marital affairs and what felt in the mid-1990s like a never-ending stream of divorces that all but shattered the fairy-tale ideal of the modern royal marriage. Despite these upheavals, however, royal life, as a …
Read More »When finally he’s crowned King William V, most people assume, the current Prince of Wales will be titled after the four British kings previously bearing that name. Not so – his choice of name comes from a little-known British prince who died in a plane crash 51 years ago. Prince …
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With so much attention on the immediate members of the Royal Family and dignitaries from around the world it was easy to miss the discreet figure of Lady Davina Windsor stepping the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. As the eldest daughter of the late Queen’s first cousin, the Duke …
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They are the royals who were kept at arm’s length, albeit for starkly different reasons. Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, severely disabled cousins of the late Queen, were cared for in an asylum and listed as dead from 1963, even though they were very much alive. Prince John, the youngest child …
Read More »France might well be our oldest and, over time, our most implacable enemy. But the history of Anglo-French state visits is longer and warmer than might be expected, a warmth I’ve no doubt Charles will feel when he arrives in Paris later this month. For all the recent hostilities over …
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King Charles II, it is said, first learned of his father’s execution when a courtier addressed him as ‘Your Majesty’. Happily, we live in less bloodthirsty times. The transition from one monarch to the next, though still immediate, is less dramatic. Nevertheless, every change of monarch signals a change of …
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The King was left emotional by the poignancy of following in his late mother’s footsteps to see a win in the first Royal Ascot of his reign, an expert said today. Charles and Queen Camilla jumped to their feet in jubilation yesterday as Desert Hero galloped over the line in …
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