The Queen's first televised Christmas Broadcast in 1957. Image  from Youtube.  The Christmas Broadcast is an annual Christmas tradition in the …

The British Royal Family on Christmas Day in 2017. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Do the British royals exchange expensive gifts and lavish presents …

Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI. She delivered her first-ever Christmas Message, a tr…

Queen Victoria’s first Christmas was a warm and homely affair spent in the coastal town of Sidmouth. In this two-part Christmas article, let us join the Duke a…

Queen Victoria’s first Christmas was a warm and homely affair spent in the coastal town of Sidmouth. In this two-part article, let us join the Duke and Duchess…

King George V delivering his 1934 Christmas Broadcast. Image from Wikimedia Commons In 1932, King George V delivered the first-ever Christmas broadcas…

Queen Elizabeth II in one of the Christmas broadcasts. Image from Youtube.  Every Christmas day, the British sovereign delivers a broadcast   to the C…

Queen Elizabeth II with World War II veterans during a D-Day National Commemorative Event in 2019 in Portsmouth (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks…

While Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen Victoria’s consort, deserves the credit for being the royal who popularized the Christmas tree in Great…

The Queen and Prince Philip in Australia. The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on November 20, 1947, was considered the big…

Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna with her daughters Maria and Kira, c1913. Image from Wikimedia Commons Princess Victoria Melita was born on Novemb…

What the French Royals Ate Sometime in the early 1930s, a strip of parchment paper dated January 21, 1552 was exhibited in London. It speaks of a one-d…

The Roosevelts with the King and Queen of England sailing from Washington, DC to Mt. Vernon, Virginia on the USS Potomac. June 9, 1939. Image from Wikimedia …

What did Queen Mary serve her guests? In The Advertiser of Adelaide, Australia, the April 30, 1930 issue published this list of foods that the queen…

Queen Victoria and her loyal attendant, John Brown. Image from Wikimedia Commons Queen Victoria ate to live and she would savor every bit of what sh…

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at his desk in the Vienna Hofburg. Image from Wikimedia Commons Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, the longest of the …

A young Princess Elizabeth of York. Image from Flickr. For Princess Elizabeth of York's eighth birthday, her doting grandfather, King George V,…