Royal Central’s Halloween season begins
with a story of adultery, beheadings, and ghostly apparitions. Here
is Anne Boleyn’s Tale of the Tower. She was the second wife of King
Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, but ultimately Anne
Boleyn met her fate in the Tower of London on May 19th, 1536. After
several years of marriage to King Henry, in 1536 Anne Boleyn was
arrested on…
Buckingham Palace has released further
details ahead of the President of the People’s Republic of China,
Mr Xi Jinping’s, upcoming State Visit to the United Kingdom as a
guest of Her Majesty The Queen. Mr Jinping will be accompanied by
his wife, Madame Peng…
Readers will already know of the strong
links between Handel and King George I, which have been already
widely explored. What is less known, however, is the influence of
another figure in the background who though certainly less talked
about, in her lifetime enjoyeda…
Sceptre gifted by Henry V to City of London after Battle of Agincourt goes on display
12th October 2015
It’s just 17 inches tall, but it has a
world of history embedded in its jewels. The beautifully
bejewelled sceptre given in thanks by King Henry V of England to
the City of London for the funding of his forces against the French
at the Battle of Agincourt, fought in 1415, will go on display. It
will be the first time in its 600-year-old history that the sceptre
will go on display. It was…
James was not born to be a King. He was
the third, but second surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta
Maria, born on 14 October 1633. Though he was styled as Duke of
York from birth, he was not formally created so until 1643. His
father was executed on 30 January 1649 but…
The Manor House in Knowle, Solihull once
had Elizabeth I as an overnight guest and the house can now be
yours for the small sum of £2,000,000. The “Darnley Portrait”
of Elizabeth I of England The house is suited for quite a large
family and has on the…
Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married
King Louis XII of France on October 9th 1514 On this day, 501 years
ago, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, married the French
king, Louis XII. The spectacular ceremony in Abbeville in
Northern France transformed Mary into the Queen of France. No
other English princess held that title after her. In fact,
only one other daughter of a King of England…
At the request of security services,
flying over the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk will be restricted,
not allowing aircraft within 1.5 miles of Anmer Hall, home of the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The rules will apply to Anmer Hall
from the 1st November while similar…
It may have been the site where King
Richard III lost his life, but Bosworth Battlefield has been
labelled as one of the world’s top 25 places to see before you die.
It makes the bucket list of the best sights in the 21st century put
together by the internationally…
The entrance to Powis Castle, which one
welcomed Queen Victoria and King George V, is set to be restored
after a public appeal raised a momentous £500k. Powis Castle is
located in Welshpool, Mid Wales, and Supporters of Powis Castle
were asked to help restore the castle’s crumbling East Front which
in its time has welcomed major figures in both British and World
history. Powis Castle When…
