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In a surprising turn of events, King Charles has decided to scrap Britain’s royal train, signaling the end of an era for one ...
Queen Adelaide was the first member of the Royal Family to have a carriage built for the royal train in 1842. It continued to ...
In the early 1840s, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by train in her own dedicated royal saloons, ...
The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. Buckingham Palace says King Charles III has accepted that it’s ...
An invitation to a coronation was treasured in 1838 when Queen Victoria was crowned. Now it's a treasured collector's item.
Specially commissioned private rail cars have transported the royal family around the country for over 150 years, beginning ...
Queen Victoria commissioned a special pair of coaches built by the London & North Western Railway in 1869 and so began a succession of ...
Queen Victoria wasn't the only royal to make train plumbing history. Under the reign of George V, the Royal Train was ...
The Asprey & Co brooch was a gift to the Queen Mother (King Charles’s grandmother) from her husband King George VI ahead of her first royal visit to Canada in 1939. Diplomatic dressing is a common ...
On December 27th 2007 Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest British reigning monarch. Elizabeth, aged 81, passed the mark set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Victoria was born on May ...
Victoria Day, celebrated in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday, has been observed in Canada since at least 1845 and has always been a distinctly Canadian observance. No other country in the ...