History
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65 years of Her Majesty’s reign in pictures: Part 1On 6 February Queen Elizabeth will be celebrating her Sapphire Jubilee as she reigns for 65 years. Leading up to this...
1st February 2017 -
The end of the House of TudorOn 24 March 1603 Queen Elizabeth I breathed her last and – left with no legitimate heir – the House of...
25th January 2017 -
A look back at The Countess of Wessex’s lifeThe Countess was born Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones in Oxford in 1965; she was given the name Helen after her paternal Aunt...
20th January 2017 -
King George III was not “a tyrannical Nincompoop”The less than flattering assessment given to King George III by many today has recently been shown to be rather inaccurate,...
19th January 2017 -
The end of the RomanovsOn 17 July 1918, after three centuries in power, the Romanov dynasty came to a tragic end with the brutal execution...
9th January 2017 -
Princess Anne – a short biography of her lifeThe Princess Royal is often said to be the ‘hardest working’ member of the British Royal Family and has a reputation...
30th December 2016 -
Who was Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, the mother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother?Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, née Cavendish-Bentinck, was the mother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and maternal grandmother...
28th December 2016 -
Watercolour of Henry VIII’s lost palace to go on display in the V&AAsk a person on the street to name one of the Tudor Royal Palaces, and most probably top of the list...
10th December 2016 -
#OnThisDay in 1290 Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England, diedKnown when she was born as Leonore in 1241, Eleanor was named after her father’s maternal grandmother. She was the second...
28th November 2016 -
#OnThisDay in 1833 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, mother of Queen Mary, was bornPrincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was born on 27 November 1833 in Hanover, Germany. She was a granddaughter of King George...
27th November 2016