As expected, members of the Royal Family are accustomed to staying in the finest hotels during their travels. For instance, New York’s The Mark, which boasts the largest hotel penthouse suite in the USA, was chosen as the swanky venue for Meghan Markle’s 2019 baby shower. Then there’s The Carlyle …
Read More »Side-by-side: King Charles’ first year as head of state compared to the late Queens’ in pictures
A year ago today, King Charles succeeded his late mother Queen Elizabeth II as monarch and was crowned in a regal ceremony inside Westminster Abbey. King Charles’ Coronation was watched by more than 20 million people in the UK and millions more around the world, yet today, His Majesty wishes to mark …
Read More »Intriguing images created by AI show what the royals could look like thirty years from now… but what is Harry doing with more hair than he has now?
With her piercing hazel-green eyes, the Princess of Wales is depicted here in 2054 as a gracefully aged Queen Mother. It is one of a set of intriguing images created to show what the Royal Family might look like in the future, produced by French journalists at Paris Match using …
Read More »This arts-loving royal, who turns 60 today, was born in a palace but lives in a terraced house! (A posh one, naturally). She was a big favourite of Queen Elizabeth and King Charles
When she was born at Kensington Palace on May 1, 1964, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones was seventh in the line of succession. Weighing 6lb and 2oz, she was the first direct descendant of a sovereign in 145 years – since Queen Victoria’s birth in 1819 – to have been born at …
Read More »EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French magazine uses AI photographs to predict the Royal Family’s future
By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 19:19 EDT, 29 April 2024 | Updated: 19:23 EDT, 29 April 2024 French magazine Paris Match elevates the art of doctored Royal photographs to a new level with a portrait of 72-year-old Kate as Queen Mother in 2054. In a 200-page 75th birthday …
Read More »King Charles waves to royal fans as he returns to Clarence House after trip to Scotland with Queen Camilla to celebrate their anniversary
King Charles cheerfully waved to royal fans and tourists today as he left Clarence House after returning from a short trip to Scotland with Queen Camilla where they celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary. Pulling out of his central London home in his maroon state Bentley limousine the monarch, who was diagnosed …
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 »The insider’s guide to Balmoral for those who missed out on a £100 ticket! ROBERT HARDMAN on what it’s really like inside – and what tourists won’t see as it opens its doors for the first time…
For all the portraits, busts and fine furniture, I have no doubt that it will be the personal stuff which lingers longest in the public’s memory. As in any stately home, it is the tell-tale signs of family life — a wedding photo, perhaps, or even a trampoline in a …
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 »Communist spy plotted to use queen of skincare Eve Lom to target Princess Diana and infiltrate the Royal Family
Communist spy plotted to use queen of skincare Eve Lom to target Princess Diana and infiltrate the Royal Family The Czechoslovakian agent used diplomatic cover to contact Eve Lom in 1987 By Tom Kelly Investigations Editor Updated: 17:09 EDT, 2 September 2023 A communist spy tried to use ‘queen of …
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