The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Juliana departs for Canada
The Netherlands had been neutral during the First World War, but the German invasion on 10 May 1940 changed everything. Juliana and her two daughters […]
Alice of Albany
Windsor Castle – A phoenix from the ashes
Windsor Castle is a royal residence – one of Queen Elizabeth II’s three official residences – and the original castle was built in the 11th […]
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s grandchildren
Queen Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Together they went on to have nine children and 42 grandchildren. Only Princess […]
Princess Alice of Albany – Frankness and Candour (Part 2)
Read part one here. The start of a happy marriage On 10 February 1904 at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Alice married Alexander in “a […]
Princess Alice of Albany – Dear Leopold’s Child (Part 1)
At half-past six in the evening on Sunday 25 February 1883 Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the Duchess of Albany, gave birth to a […]
Kensington Palace – A grand royal residence
The magnificent Kensington Palace was once a two-story mansion built by Sir George Coppin in 1605. It was purchased by Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of […]