January 30th marks the anniversary of the
execution of King Charles I in 1649 at Whitehall, London. The
date is normally marked by a short ceremony in the Banqueting House
at Whitehall, however this year the ceremony will not take place
there due to the fact that the Banqueting House is the subject of a
major conservation programme. That bitter winter morning in
1649, the King was led at 10 a.m…
Mary Queen of Scots was born on 8
December 1542, at Linlithgow Palace, incidentally the birthplace of
her father, James V of Scotland, in West Lothian, some fifteen
miles distance from Edinburgh. The palace’s name translates
literally as the “loch in the damp hollow”…
