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Duchess of Cornwall visits the Fan Museum
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall examines a 18th Century King George II fan at the ‘War and Peace’ Exhibition at the Fan Museum in Greenwich on October 20, 2009 in London. The Duchess also attended a reception for supporters and guests ofter...
Victoria & Albert: Art and Love
A previously unseen picture of Queen Victoria as a glamorous young woman is to go on display at an exhibition in London. The portrait, comissioned in 1843, shows the Queen with her long brown hair loose around her shoulders, gazing into the dista...
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by W. Shawcross
“It’s always a mistake to talk about your marriage,” Queen Elizabeth said in a tape-recorded interview, which was kept under lock and key in a Royal archive until the biographer William Shawcross was given access to it after being c...
Alfred Prince of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha at the Romanian Court
Alfred’s last visit to the Romanian Royal Court was remembered by his sister Marie of Romania in her memoir and letters. When she recollected those days Marie also quoted from Robert Herrick’s poems: Gather the roses while ye may Whilst...
To the Memory of Queen Victoria by Carmen Sylva
These ever wakeful eyes are closed. They saw Such grief, that they could see no more. The heart — That quick’ning pulse of nations — could not bear Another throb of pain, and could not hear Another cry of tortur’d motherhood. Those un...
Duke of York at Montreal & Quebec, 4 October 1901
The film shows the citation, presentation, and dedication of a bridge by the Duke of York (later King George V). Many high-ranking military officials of both England and Canada are with him. It was published by Edison Manufacturing Co., 1901. Dian...
Coronation of King George VI, May 1937 newsreel
This is the complete newsreel produced by Universal Studios and shows the coronation ceremonies: the Archbishop place the Crown upon the Monarch’s Head, tremendous throngs at world’s greatest Pageant, Britain’s peers in glamorous...
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Leave Britain On American Tour, 1939 FILM
King and Queen Leave Britain On American Tour, 1939/05/15 London, England: Impressive scenes as King George and Queen Elizabeth leave London on the start of their trip to Canada and the U.S. Huge throngs jam the dock at Portsmouth as their majesties ...
Pond’s Cream: Royalty & commercial adverts
“No woman is so highly placed that she can afford to neglect her beauty. Personal appearance is vital to her success – she cannot allow the usual marks of fatigue or exposure to show in her face. I believe that her beauty can be thoroughl...
Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour. Forthcoming Exhibition
26 July – 30 September 2009: At Buckingham Palace this summer, dresses and jewellery worn by Queen Elizabeth , and gifts presented to Her Majesty by the people of the Commonwealth will be on display in Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tou...
Young Queen Victoria Film March 2009
There is a a new film on Queen Victoria scheduled for release on 6 March. Emily Blunt, the actress who interprets the young Victoria said that her personage “was very rebellious, she was lively, defiant and feisty and I wanted to show her a...
Queen Marie of Romania & her British humour
This is a “Pictorial Comedy” postcard edited by James Henderson & Sons, London (inscribed “There are plenty of good fish in the Sea”), sent by Marie, the Crown Princess of Romania, to Princess Stirbey in 1906. This is...
Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme targeted aristocrats and royals
This post is authored by Valentin Mandache It was revealed in an article published in The Times on 6 February 2009 that Prince Charles has been a target of agents working for a fund connected with Bernard Madoff, the New York financier suspected o...
The NEW OFFICIAL site of the British Monarchy
A new website of the British Monarchy has just been launched: documents and videos, photographs, some never been seen before, are now available on that website, among them images of pages from Queen Victoria’s Journal and many other goodies. DM...
Message from the Queen of Romania to England, 1929
©Diana Mandache and http://royalromania.wordpress.com 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author is strictly prohibited. What could I, a British born Princess wish mo...
A Royal Wedding: Marie & Ferdinand, 10 January 1893
The Marriage of Princess Marie of Edinburgh to Ferdinand, the Crown Prince of Romania - By Diana Mandache / From “Royalty Digest” (UK), No.119, May 2001, pp.333-338, article revised. Initially, Queen Victoria did not approve the marriage ...
Golden Jubilee 1887 - A Present to Queen Victoria from Elizabeth of Romania
Queen Victoria and her peoples celebrated in 1887 the Golden Jubilee of glorious reign. Among the many interesting presents received from all over the world, there was an abridged translation into Romanian of her own famous “Journal” sent by Q...
An autograph card by Queen Mary
King George V remained friends to his cousin Missy, a fact seen through their correspondence during WWI, and after. They wrote to each other more often on personal subjects rather than state matters and did not forget their family ties. Queen Mary to...
Queen Victoria seen by Princess Marie of Edinburgh
At “Grand Mama’s Court” (extract) When we look back upon our childhood, all memories come to us through a haze of mystery. Everything seems larger, deeper, further off, full of unraveled possibilities, unexpla...
A letter from King George V to Queen Marie of Romania, 1922
12 April 1922 My dear Missy Many thanks for your letter of the 3rd from Belgrade, where you had gone to help the king to arrange the house for Mignon’s reception; I am so sorry that you had to hurry away to Athena to be with Lisabetta ...
