by Ellee Seymour | Nov 7, 2021 | Norfolk, Uncategorized
I wonder if Greta realises that her demands for action on climate change is not being called for the first time. It was a conversation started more than one hundred years ago. At the time urgent recommendations were made to save our coastline from further erosion....
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 19, 2021 | Norfolk
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...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 5, 2021 | Norfolk
How fabulous for the newly wed Princess Alexandra to be swept off her feet and onto the royal train by her dashing young bridegroom, Prince Edward, (later King Edward V11) to spend their honeymoon at Sandringham. The date was 28 March, 1863 and this was the first...
by Ellee Seymour | Sep 22, 2021 | Norfolk
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...
by Ellee Seymour | Sep 20, 2021 | Norfolk
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...
by Ellee Seymour | Sep 9, 2021 | Norfolk
I’m thrilled to say that The Royal Station Master’s Daughters is available from today as an ebook. It is packed with royal stories set during WW1 and inspired by a real Royal Station Master called Harry Saward and his three daughters. Harry and his...
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