The Last Days… is a new series on Channel
5 which looks at the final moments of the lives of a variety of
notorious and infamous characters in history. Tonight’s episode
looks particularly at the final days of Charles I, the King who
faced Civil Wars, was overthrown by parliament and executed in
January 1649. Whilst Charles I reigned for over twenty years in the
seventeenth century, his…
On 26th March, thousands came
together to say goodbye to the last Plantagenet King, Richard
III. The King’s much-publicised reburial marks the first time
since 1485 that the two opposing sides in the Wars of the Roses,
the Yorks and the Lancasters have met at…
Queen Anne quite frankly had a tremendous
reign becoming the first monarch of a united single sovereign
state, known as Great Britain in 1707 as well as showing her worth
as a Queen Regnant in a male-dominated society. Though tragedy was
never far away from the last of the…
One of the more well known and oldest
Royal Families in Europe comes from Sweden. The current Swedish
Royal Family is made up of King Carl XVI Gustaf (b.1946), Queen
Silvia (1943), Crown Princess Victoria (1977), Prince Daniel
(1973), Princess Estelle (2012), Prince Carl Philip (1979), and
Princess Madeleine (1982) who is married to Mr Christopher O’Neill
(1974), and their daughter Princess…
On 9 April 2005 Prince Charles married
Camilla Parker-Bowles more than 30 years after their romance began.
View image | gettyimages.com The Royal couple appeared after their
civil wedding ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor, arm in arm
smiling and waving to the estimated…
On 31 March 1905 an extraordinary woman
died at Coates Castle in Sussex, aged 92. Although she had been
widowed since 1885, Louisa Jane, the first Duchess of Abercorn, was
not going to let advancing years and the loss of a husband
interfere with the rest of her life. She may…
Baby Cambridge number two is just around
the corner, and I am (as I am sure many, many others) are waiting
on pins and needles. There is something about a royal birth that
brings people together, not only in the United Kingdom but across
the globe. All across the Commonwealth nations people celebrated
the birth of the future King. However, that was almost two years
ago, so let’s review the…
In this new ongoing series of articles,
we will be delving in to the world of the House of Stuart, a royal
dynasty who first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland in the
late 14th century before eventually inheriting the Kingdoms of
England and Ireland in the early 17th…
The British Royal Family is, without a
doubt, one of the world’s most recognised monarchies. But how much
do you know about the other Royal Families across the globe? In
this new series, we will help break down each monarchy for you, so
you have a better idea of who is…
It has been announced that Channel 4 will
be following the reburial of Richard III’s remains with a number of
live broadcasts of the last Plantagenet King’s re-internment later
this month. Channel 4, who were the broadcasters to produce the
award-winning documentary Richard III: The King in the Car Park,
and were the ones to reveal to the nation the discovery of the
King’s long-lost remains…
