Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront\u00eb<\/a>, as well as their brother Branwell, were all born in the house on Market Street between 1816 and 1820.<\/p>\nAfter a fundraising campaign, the former family home was turned into a community-owned museum, education centre and cafe called Bront\u00eb Birthplace, which opened its doors following the Queen\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n
Sarah West, a volunteer at the site who met the Queen at the time, said: \u201cOne of the joys of volunteering at the Bront\u00eb Birthplace is meeting fascinating people from all over the world who come to discover where the Bront\u00eb story began.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving the opportunity to meet Her Majesty during her visit was a wonderful experience, and it is fantastic news that she has chosen to become our royal patron.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen has become the royal patron of a museum at the birthplace of the Bront\u00eb sisters. Her Majesty opened the site in Thornton, Bradford, to the public in May 2025. On the first anniversary of its opening, staff received a letter from Buckingham Palace confirming that the Queen had accepted their invitation to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2481981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[26597,414183,349302,21738,49174,22769,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2481980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-charities","tag-museums","tag-news","tag-queen-camilla","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Queen-becomes-royal-patron-of-Bronte-sisters-birthplace.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481982,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481980\/revisions\/2481982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}