The first issues of The Royal Gazette, Bermuda Commercial and General Advertiser and Recorder were published in January 1828.

Its founder Donald MacPhee Lee, an immigrant to Bermuda from Prince Edward Island in Canada,[1] served as editor until his death in 1883, whereupon it was operated by his son and later his daughter.

The Royal Gazette Company Limited was formed after the newspaper was bought by Mr John Foggo Eve from the Lee family in 1904.

[2] A Sunday edition was started in 1948, which continued until the competing afternoon daily Mid-Ocean News was purchased in 1962 and reduced to a weekly in 1968.

[7] The Royal Gazette has been the protagonist in several legal cases protecting freedom of expression and independent/free press in Bermuda.