[ad_1] Shedding staff like autumn leaves, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle face the tenth anniversary of their meeting, later this year, with fewer people around them than either has had in a very long time. Whether a dwindling income played a part in the drop in numbers of staff they don’t say, but it must…
[ad_1] 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 the loss of her…
[ad_1] 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 ‘Windsor Knot.’ He was…
[ad_1] 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 1917 to recognise outstanding…
[ad_1] 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 whole, continued as normal….
[ad_1] 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 William of Gloucester was…
[ad_1] 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 of Gloucester, and a…
[ad_1] 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 of King George V,…
[ad_1] 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 Brexit, his mother was…
[ad_1] 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 direction, however subtle. For…