Month: May 2025

The royals are often given gifts on foreign visits (Picture: AFP) Buckingham Palace has released a list of gifts to the royals in recent years, ranging from a Rolls-Royce and a feather crown to a stuffed camel. A new list outlines official gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth II, the King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent between 2020 … Continue reading “Full list of the lavish presents Royals have received since 2020”

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The royals made eight Buckingham Palace appearances (Picture: The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images) The Royal Family’s appearance alongside war hero Winston Churchill on the Buckingham Palace balcony is one of the iconic moments of VE Day in 1945. But what is less well known is that the monarch greeted the packed crowd on the Mall eight times on the historic day. Their schedule did not stop there, they were busy marking the German surrender 80 years ago today … Continue reading “How the royals celebrated VE Day back in 1945”

A movie about Queen Elizabeth’s night out on VE Day 1945 is now streaming on Amazon Prime (Picture: YouTube) On May 8, 1945, Princess Elizabeth joined the crowds in London to celebrate VE Day – an evening she later called ‘one of the most memorable nights of my life’. After becoming the heir presumptive to the English throne aged just 10 after the abdication of her uncle Edward VIII, her life path quickly changed. However, a few years after Britain … Continue reading “Celebrate VE Day with a ‘fascinating’ true story about Queen Elizabeth on Amazon Prime”