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 »Last time there was a crisis, the Royal Family time-travelled back to the stuffy world of Queen Victoria, says JANE MARGUERITE TIPPET. This time around they MUST modernise – and become a true symbol of our national life…
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 »Think you know who inspired Prince WILLIAM’S name? Then you’re probably WRONG says CHRISTOPHER WILSON. It’s a tribute to a swashbuckling royal cousin – friend, role model and hero to King Charles who was killed in a tragic plane crash in 1972…
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 …
Read More »Who is Lady Davina Windsor? And how was the royal involved with a Maori sheep shearer?
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 …
Read More »Queen’s disabled cousins Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon who were kept ‘hidden’
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 »Edward VII had ‘special’ chair made for the Paris brothels. And Victoria pretended to be ‘Madame de la Comtesse de Balmoral’ on her private trips to France. It fooled no one! We look back at the Royal Family’s great cross-Channel love-affair
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 …
Read More »CRAIG BROWN: Changing of the guard at royal gift shop
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 …
Read More »Why did King Charles become emotional at Royal Ascot?
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 …
Read More »Royal blues! Camilla looks regal alongside Charles in new images
Royal blues! Camilla looks regal alongside Charles in new images released by Buckingham Palace ahead of the Coronation By Gina Kalsi For Mailonline Published: 17:00 EDT, 28 April 2023 | Updated: 17:49 EDT, 28 April 2023 Three new photographs of the King and Queen Consort at Buckingham Palace have been …
Read More »This week in royal history: The death of Wallis Simpson and the Queen Mother’s wedding
This week in royal history was an eventful one, kicking off with the death of Wallis Simpson, on April 24, 1986. By then, at the age of 89, the widow of the former King Edward VIII had been bedbound for the best part of a decade. And yesterday marked not …
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