Queen’s Jubilee Events List

The UK will celebrate the Queen’s 70th year on the throne with a special four-day bank holiday weekend in June. The long weekend will include public events and community activities, as well as national moments of reflection. The Queen’s Birthday Parade will take place on Thursday 2 June, and Trooping Continue Reading

New Jubilee ‘Elizabeth Line’ Opens

The Elizabeth Tube Line has opened. This morning, hundreds of people gathered in central London in the hopes of being among the first passengers on the new Elizabeth Tube line.The “momentous occasion” was lauded by railway devotees who had travelled from all across the country for the ceremony and had Continue Reading

George V – The Hard King

HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s grandparents, King George V and Queen Mary, rescued the monarchy from potential disaster, and their influence persists to this day. King George V. George could not have been a more unlikely moderniser. Born and brought up in the Victorian age he was conservative to his fingertips. Continue Reading