So here it is –Â the concluding episode in The White Queen series. As viewers, we have certainly witnessed a lot! Â We have seen plenty of marriages, births, coronations, battles, plots and several beheadings. And in this final episode, the producers were hardly going to deprive us of these elements which have made the series what it is.
The episode will illustrate the events leading up to…
With the recent birth of a future king, the eyes of the world have turned on the British Monarchy. With 3 future kings ready and waiting, people are beginning to wonder: How much change is ahead? In recent months, the senior royals have had their fair share of health issues.
Today the Duke of Edinburgh made his first public appearance since leaving hospital in June.
The 92-year-old attended the Royal Society in Edinburgh to hand out Royal Medals and looked sprightly as ever in a dark grey suit, as he exited his car and made his way inside the…
On 21st May 1471, 17 days after Tewkesbury, King Henry VI died in the Tower of London. On that same day King Edward IV returned to London in triumph. The White Queen showed us one version of this event, but it did not sit well with the source material available. The official story released, encapsulated within the Yorkist source ‘The Arrivall of Edward IV’, was that Henry died of…
A letter has recently come to light that was sent by the then Princess Elizabeth in 1945 about a young man that she and her sister apparently had a crush on.
The letter was sent to cousin, Diana Bowes-Lyon, and is signed ‘Lilibet’, the Queen’s nickname from her family…
Viewers of the BBC’s White Queen series will have become accustomed to the regular pregnancies and deliveries of its eponymous heroine Elizabeth Wydeville. The programme has recreated some of the extreme conditions under which she gave birth during the 1460s and 70s, which…
‘Reinventions’ – concluding episode of David Starkey’s ‘Music and Monarchy’
9th August 2013
In the final episode of Dr David Starkey’s examination of how the monarchy has influenced British music, audiences will witness how the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a revival of royal pomp, pageantry and formality. Music for royal ceremonies reflected the growing imperial power and Britain’s dominance across the globe; whilst it also helped the public reconnect with the monarchy as a…
There has been a lot of discussion concerning who is entitled to call themselves a Princess followed by their first name in the British system. Many people get it wrong including the press, or shall I say, frequently the press. Many know by now, for example, that when Diana…
Though his knowledge of fine libations consists mostly of the dairy variety from the House of Cambridge, Prince George, the two-week-old heir to the British Throne, has been awarded official VIP status this week at one of Cambridge’s oldest drinking…
It has been two weeks since little Prince George’s grand arrival, and already, he has left a lasting imprint on this great big world that will soon be his to explore…
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