Signing up Norfolk’s War Horses for WW1

Signing up Norfolk’s War Horses for WW1

I so love Michael Morpurgo’s powerful War Horse story and was reminded of it when reading about the signing up of Norfolk’s own War Horses in a booklet called Dereham in the Great War, A Diary by Terry Davy. The entry for Thursday, 6 August 1914 vividly...
Prince William’s love of royal Norfolk estate

Prince William’s love of royal Norfolk estate

This evening I shall be glued to TV watching a tribute to Prince Philip called Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers. Prince Philip had a great fondness for Sandringham and spent his last few years in retirement on his royal Norfolk estate, where Prince William...
Christmas at Sandringham 1984

Christmas at Sandringham 1984

I stumbled across an old guide book of Sandringham House at an antiques store in Norfolk with this photo of the royal family at Sandringham at Christmas 1984. In the last 36 years, like any family, the royal family has suffered its share of deaths and divorce, as well...