Tom

Follower of european royalty and genealogy enthusiast. 🌐 English / Spanish. #IStandWithCatherine

[🌻Sarahsecret @sarahdiaryz]

Princess Margaret's family - The Earl of Snowdon, Lady Sarah, Daniel and Samuel Chatto with Samuel's girlfriend Eleanor Ekserdjian

📸 Chris Jackson

[Tom @LJustTom]

So notable absences:

- Lady Louise
- Charles, Viscount Linley
- Arthur Chatto

I read that Mark’s daughter Stephanie and her husband did attend.

I was expecting Richard and Birgitte but I’m not surprised they didn’t attend.

[🌻Sarahsecret @sarahdiaryz]

The groom's father, Mark Phillips, attended his son, Peter Phillips's wedding yesterday.

📸 James Whatling

[🌻Sarahsecret @sarahdiaryz]

The groom's father, Mark Phillips, attended his son, Peter Phillips's wedding yesterday.

📸 James Whatling

[Tom @LJustTom]

No Mark Phillips?

[TheRoyalObserver @royalobserver_]

Zara Tindall looked stunning in blue as she arrived for her brother Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s wedding in Gloucestershire on Saturday. She was warmly greeted with two kisses outside the venue before joining family and guests for the special celebration.

[🌻Sarahsecret @sarahdiaryz]

#DYK As a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her father Lord Mountbatten, Lady Pamela Hicks was the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria.

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

The bride is breathtaking! 💞#RoyalWedding

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

BREAKING: Official announcement from BP on behalf of the King regarding the passing of the Royal Family’s oldest member:

The RF, ‘mourn a woman whose warmth, wit and perspicacity always made such an impression, and who will be so dearly missed by all those who knew and loved her.’

[Tom @LJustTom]

I’m in shock. Bless her soul.

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

One of the saddest pieces of news I could have received: my dear Lady Pamela Hicks has passed away. I’m in shock and at a loss for words at the moment.
One of the most important figures in recent British history is gone, and with her, so much invaluable knowledge, experience, and living history has been lost. Her passing marks the end of an extraordinary chapter.
I will never forget you, Ma’am!

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

One of the saddest pieces of news I could have received: my dear Lady Pamela Hicks has passed away. I’m in shock and at a loss for words at the moment.
One of the most important figures in recent British history is gone, and with her, so much invaluable knowledge, experience, and living history has been lost. Her passing marks the end of an extraordinary chapter.
I will never forget you, Ma’am!

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Preparations begin for Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling's intimate Royal Wedding - with decorators and florists seen arriving at Cotswolds church https://t.co/2MDduIwOeu

[Imperial Material ♚ @implmaterial]

Princess Alexandra

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The King and Queen are joined by members of The Royal Family to remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

What a wonderful photograph!

Buckingham Palace has released a photo of the members of the Royal Family in attendance at today’s commemorative event.

It’s so lovely to see Princess Alexandra, although I can’t help but miss many other members of the family who weren’t present today…

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

Forever in our hearts…

The most extraordinary Queen the nations she reigned over could ever have had. We have so very much to be grateful for in her life, her service, and her unwavering devotion. Forever proud to be an Elizabethan.

Elizabeth II would have been 100 today.

[Rodrigo @The_QVDS]

HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY TO LADY PAMELA HICKS!
I often say the extended Royal Family are the icing on the cake of the Monarchy — and Lady P is truly the cherry on top.

She isn’t just part of history — she is its personification, a living embodiment of a century of legacy, having witnessed so many of its most defining moments.

[BRITISH History - On This Day @BritishHistorym]

#onthisday 18 April 1889 Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon was born (d. 1915)

Fergus Bowes-Lyon was a British Army officer & older brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who later became the queen consort of King George VI. He was a maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.

Fergus Bowes-Lyon was born at Forbes House in Ham, Surrey, the son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, & Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.

On 17 September 1914, Bowes-Lyon married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer (1890 – 1959), daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington.

They had one child; Rosemary Louisa Bowes-Lyon (1915 –1989).

In the First World War, Bowes-Lyon served with the 8th Battalion, Black Watch: as a lieutenant since 19 August 1914, & as temporary captain since 17 November. Alfred Anderson, later the last surviving Scottish soldier of the conflict (& the last surviving British soldier to have been awarded the 1914 Star), was his batman.

Bowes-Lyon was killed in action on 27 September 1915, during the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt in the Battle of Loos. As he led an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage of German artillery & he fell back into his sergeant's arms. Bullets struck him in the chest & shoulder & he died on the field. He was buried in a quarry at Vermelles, but although the quarry was adopted as a war cemetery, the details of his grave were lost, & so he was recorded among the names of the missing on the Loos Memorial.

At the time of Bowes-Lyon's death, his brother John was also serving with the Black Watch. His younger brother, Michael, was at home recovering from wounds & his eldest brother, Lord Glamis, had recently left the Black Watch after being wounded. His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, & after his death became an invalid, withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king George VI in 1923. Fergus's widow later married Captain William Frederick Martin (d. 6 October 1947). His widow died on 29 March 1959, aged 68.

In November 2011, Bowes-Lyon's grandson supplied family records to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission detailing his original burial place, & showing that it had remained marked until the end of the war. As a result, in August 2012, his place of commemoration was moved to the Quarry Cemetery, Auchy-les-Mines, marked by a headstone inscribed with his details & the words "Buried near this spot" as the precise location of the grave is still not known.

#britishhistory

[Tom @LJustTom]

He looks younger

[Tatler @Tatlermagazine]

James, Earl of Wessex, 18, makes rare public appearance to join the royal family on Easter Sunday https://t.co/zoRq38owAk

[Tom @LJustTom]

And to think that James and Savannah are from different generations 😳

[🌻Sarahsecret @sarahdiaryz]

✨James, Earl of Wessex, Isla, Peter, and Savannah Phillips, and The Duke of Edinburgh attend the annual Easter Sunday Matins Service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on April 5, 2026.

📸 Sipa US

[Tom @LJustTom]

@Nanpolo Sacarlo de la línea de sucesión!

[The Royal Watcher @saadsalman719]

The Swedish Royal Family are attending the Funeral of Princess Désirée of Sweden, Baroness Silfverschiöld in the Chapel of the Royal Palace of Stockholm!

https://t.co/ytyywASJFC