Tag Archives: #RoyalVisit

A Vital European Bridge

Posted on July 10, 2017 in the Blog, Misc category

  A true story I owe to my late Spanish mother, a post-war immigrant to the UK , involves  a state visit of the the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, to the UK in October 1954. I was a young child then and with one my first life-time  passions that of watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The precision of the proud British soldiers in red coats  and the uplifting music of their band stirred my imagination, making me feel one of them, as if I’ve stepped into …

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Anglo-Spanish Royals

Posted on July 7, 2017 in the Blog, Misc, Royalty category

The Spanish Royal visit to the UK An Enduring  Relationship Revived   Ask your average English schoolboy what he knows about the relations  between the Spanish and British Royal families, and the likelihood is that he will mention Spain’s Philip 11nd, and the heroic defeat  of his Armada by Queen Elizabeth Ist. A less selective and superficial history will show that relations between British and Spanish royals  have been mutually respectful, if not immune to occasional crisis, for over five  centuries. As the recent biography of Spain’s great Queen Isabella …

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