Could YOU be the new Buckingham Palace PA? Queen advertises for £35,000 assistant in her private secretary’s office to help manage diaries and draft correspondence Queen is recruiting a personal assistant to work in the Private Secretary Office Duties include coordinating diaries, drafting correspondence, managing inbox Based at Buckingham Palace, employee will receive up to £35,000 … Read more
The three-household limit on bubbles over the Christmas period may pose a challenge to the Queen’s usual festive celebrations. For the last 33 years, the monarch, 94, has travelled up to Sandringham for the holidays, where she hosts close family members, after the Christmas party for extended family members at Buckingham Palace in December. But … Read more
For families across the country, separated by lockdown, it’s the little things that make such a difference at the moment. And it’s clear just what a home-made gift means to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. This beautiful image, shared by Buckingham Palace today to mark their 73rd wedding anniversary, shows the couple looking … Read more
The creator of hit series The Crown believes the Queen was a better mother to two younger children as she was still ‘trying to find her feet’ when Prince Charles and Princess Anne were young. Peter Morgan said the Queen was probably ‘much more ready to be a mother’ to Prince Andrew, born in 1960, and Prince … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are growing further apart from the royal family because they ‘do things their own way whatever the cost, while the Firm refuses to bend the rules’, a royal expert has claimed. Katie Nicholl noted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex‘s decision to publicise a visit to Los Angeles National Cemetery on … Read more
Netflix has sparked controversy after eagle-eyed military viewers noticed Olivia Colman’s salute was ‘limp’ in The Crown‘s season trailer. In the trailer for the fourth season of the hit show, the Queen gave a salute as she watched the Red Arrows perform a flypast at Buckingham Palace in London. But General Lord Dannatt, former head … Read more
Cheers, Ma’am! UK gets extra bank holiday for a four-day weekend to celebrate Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 Britons will be given Friday, June 3 off as an additional bank holiday in 2022 Forms part of celebrations for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in her 70th year of rule Late May Bank Holiday will be put back to … Read more
With Windsor Castle and its 5,000-acre Great Park at her disposal, the Queen might seem better placed than most to weather the second lockdown. But Her Majesty still feels the pain of isolation nevertheless. I can reveal that one of her closest friends has died, with the Queen unable to visit her before the end … Read more
The new series of The Crown will tell the tragic story of the Queen‘s ‘hidden’ cousins who were locked up in an asylum and registered as dead after being born with severe learning difficulties. The Netflix drama returns to our screens this weekend and offers its take on the shameful scandal that saw sisters Katherine … Read more
One is downsizing: The Queen and Prince Philip move in to Royal bolthole at Sandringham after leaving Balmoral more than three weeks early before Her Majesty’s return to work in October Queen and Prince Philip will leave Balmoral three weeks early for Sandringham Palace officials in the process of creating ‘bubble’ between Norfolk and Windsor … Read more