I’m a royal expert – find out if you’re a mastermind of monarchy with my 50 questions – how many can you get right?
ARE you a mastermind of monarchy?
The Sun’s legendary photographer Arthur Edwards has been covering the Royal Family for more than 40 years.
He has set 50 questions to find out if you will be crowned as a regal know-all.
LIFE & TIMES
1. Which current royal stepped away from the spotlight and taught music at a primary school in Hull for 13 years?
2. Queen Elizabeth’s parents were known as the Duke and Duchess of what at the time of her birth?
3. Who was the last royal to die in active war service?
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4. Which royal spent most of their childhood in Australia?
5. Why was King Charles’s 2005 wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles postponed for a day?
6. Which country was Elizabeth II visiting when she found out she had become Queen?
7. What are the names of the late Princess Margaret’s two children?
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8. What infamous TV spectacular did Prince Edward organise in 1987?
9. What year did Edward VIII abdicate?
10. What are the names of the children of Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex?
11. What year was King Charles formally “invested” as the Prince of Wales at a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle?
12. What tough boarding school did King Charles attend in Scotland, which he reportedly described as “Colditz in kilts”?
13. What was Coronation Day nicknamed in the run-up to the Queen’s big day in 1953?
14. Which actress was the first to play Queen Elizabeth II on stage?
15. Which Prime Minister sent the Queen a gift of rubber gloves after noticing her doing the washing-up at Balmoral with bare hands?
16. Which public building’s proposed extension was labelled “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend” by the then Prince Charles in a speech in 1984?
17. Which year did the Queen dub as her “annus horribilis”?
18. What was the name of the intruder who managed to get into the Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace in 1982?
19. Who described the royals as “a seedy, worn-out bunch of hags” on a rare visit to London for Queen Mary’s funeral in 1953?
20. How old was the King at the Coronation of his mother in 1953?
21. Which high street fashion retailer did Catherine, Princess of Wales, once work for?
22. Which dukes have been in charge of organising Coronation ceremonies since 1386?
23. What kind of dog do the new Prince and Princess of Wales have?
24. What cocktail was said to be the favourite of both the Queen and the Queen Mother?
25. Why did Sun royal photographer Arthur Edwards’ 1980 photo of Diana at the nursery school where she worked cause a stir?
26. How old was the Queen when she first appeared on the cover of Time magazine?
27. Which royal rebuffed a would-be kidnapper by telling him: “Not bloody likely!”
28. Charles came very close to death in 1988 – what happened?
29. Which member of the Royal Family was the last Viceroy of India?
30. What item was covered in gold to sit atop the coronet worn by Charles at his investiture as Prince of Wales?
RELATIONSHIPS
1. What is the name of Queen Consort Camilla’s first husband?
2. What was the name of the RAF officer who Princess Margaret was forbidden to marry?
3. What year did the then Prince Charles marry Lady Diana Spencer?
4. What was the name of the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent?
5. Which American actress and model dated Prince Andrew in the early Eighties?
6. What is the name of the woman from Zimbabwe who Prince Harry dated before Meghan Markle?
7. Which of the Queen’s first cousins gave up his place in the succession to marry a divorced Catholic woman?
8. Which university was the meeting place for Prince William and Kate Middleton?
9. Whose royal wedding was the first to be televised?
10. What animal accompanied the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their honeymoon?
HISTORY
1. Which king as a young man spent six weeks on the run, travelling around England disguised as a servant?
2. What was the name of the artist who painted the most famous portraits of Henry VIII?
3. What was the name of the battlefield where Richard III was killed?
4. Who was the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty?
5. Which king died in captivity in Yorkshire’s Pontefract Castle?
6. Which king did Shakespeare write three plays about?
7. Which king was played on the big screen by both Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh?
8. Who was the monarch who agreed to the charter of rights known as Magna Carta?
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9. Which king’s feud with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket led to the churchman’s murder in Canterbury Cathedral?
10. How many children did Queen Victoria have?
ROYAL QUIZ ANSWERS
GENERAL
1. Katharine, Duchess of Kent. 2. York 3. Prince George, Duke of Kent – younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI 4. Princess Michael of Kent. 5. So he could attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II 6. Kenya. 7. David Armstrong-Jones and Sarah Chatto 8. It’s A Royal Knockout – officially known as The Grand Knockout Tournament. 9. 1936 10. Archie and Lilibet. 11. 1969 12. Gordonstoun 13. C-Day 14. Prunella Scales in Alan Bennett’s play A Question of Attribution. 15. Margaret Thatcher 16. The National Gallery in London. 17. 1992 18. Michael Fagan 19. The exiled Duke of Windsor – former Edward VIII – in a letter to wife Wallis Simpson 20. Four 21. Jigsaw 22. The Dukes of Norfolk. 23. A black cocker spaniel 24. Dubonnet and gin. 25. Her skirt was backlit, revealing the outline of her legs. 26. Three. 27. Princess Anne. 28. An avalanche in Switzerland missed him by feet, and killed a friend in his skiing party. 29. Lord Louis Mountbatten. 30. A ping-pong ball.
RELATIONSHIPS
1. Andrew Parker Bowles. 2. Peter Townsend. 3. 1981 4. Angus Ogilvy. 5. Koo Stark. 6. Chelsy Davy. 7. Prince Michael of Kent. 8. University of St Andrews. 9. Princess Margaret’s wedding to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. 10. Her corgi, Susan.
HISTORY
1. Charles II. 2. Hans Holbein. 3. Bosworth. 4. Henry VII. 5. Richard II. 6. Henry VI. 7. Henry V 8. King John. 9. Henry II. 10. Nine