How would you feel if you found out you had to go into quarantine? Would you feel angry, resigned, regretful, afraid? Would concern about your health override all other feelings? Or could there be a part of you that might enjoy the enforced rest and extra time off work? How would you pass the days? …
Sandringham House has been in the news over the past week as the setting for a royal ‘summit’, held to discuss the crisis over Harry and Meghan’s decision to break away from the family firm. Having been to Sandringham as a sightseer, I thought readers might be interested to know what the house and grounds …
When I was a little girl who collected stamps, some of the most beautiful and intriguing examples to come my way were from Norfolk Island. There were pictures of birds and butterflies and shipwrecks and, loveliest of all, an engraving of a sea-girt, pine-forested landscape that appeared in a multi-coloured series of stamps ranging from …
Trooping the colour is the biggest annual event in the calendar of royal pageantry. On the second Saturday in June, the entire British royal family gathers in London to celebrate the Queen’s official birthday. The ‘colour’ (the flag of one of the royal regiments) is ‘trooped’ (paraded) along the Mall from Buckingham Palace to Horseguards …
