It’s a picture that has been burnished into the collective memory. Queen Elizabeth II smiling, a little frail, clutching her late husband’s shepherd’s crook while a roaring fire blazed behind her, just 24 hours before she died. We all remember the time, and indeed the place: September 8, 2022, at …
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During the Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle today, Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and Sarah Ferguson all opted to wear different shades of green. The colour is said to symbolise ‘new beginnings’, something the royal family will be hoping for at a time when both King Charles and the future Queen …
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A Royal expert has claimed Prince William and Princess Kate are trying to bring to an end their so-called feud with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to have a strained relationship with the Royal Family. The couple – who live in America …
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Most families have firm traditions that they mark each year – and the British Royal Family is no different. One of the most important occasions of The Firm’s social calendar is Easter, which the late Queen Elizabeth II was said to love. The Royal Family usually celebrate the holiday at Windsor Castle, …
Read More »The late Queen’s final Buckingham Palace balcony appearance demonstrated the monarch’s commitment to duty above all else, royal experts have said – and showed a sweet insight into her relationship with her son. Speaking on Channel 5’s Secrets of the Royal Palaces, broadcaster and historian Wesley Kerr said that Elizabeth …
Read More »Back in 1992, Queen Elizabeth II endured the lowest point of her reign after a year of royal scandal and turmoil which she famously dubbed her ‘annus horribilis’. Charles was at war with Diana, Andrew separated from Sarah, Anne divorced, Windsor Castle went up in flames and public opinion turned …
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Prince Harry isn’t ‘up for writing another book’ after he ‘damaged his relationship with the King’ when attacking Queen Camilla in his memoir Spare, a royal expert has claimed. The Duke of Sussex, 39, previously revealed he has enough material to publish a second tell-all and had cut almost half of the …
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The Princess of Wales’ Mother’s Day photo has suffered an awkward editing fail. The picture, showing Kate Middleton, 42, alongside her children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. But eagled-eyed fans spotted that the sleeve of Princess Charlotte’s arm didn’t line-up. It comes after the royals’ Christmas card also …
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If the late Queen Elizabeth seemed outwardly unmoved by the turmoil of Megxit and her grandson’s criticisms of the Royal Family, perhaps that should have been no surprise. The Queen had seen it all before – as Ingrid Seward explains in her new biography of Elizabeth and King Charles III. …
Read More »As newlyweds, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had what their courtiers regarded as a thoroughly modern marriage. In July 1949, two years after their wedding, they moved into Clarence House, which had been refurbished with the extravagant gadgetry and luxuries that the Duke of Edinburgh desired. These included everything from …
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