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The other side of the story - Our shortest reigning Monarchs

In just a short while, The Queen will overtake the record set by Queen Victoria and go on to become the longest reigning Monarch in British history. But while Her Majesty has been blessed with a long reign, filled with prosperity and happiness, there are others who have not been as fortunate. Fate did not smile upon these rulers, whose time on the throne was cut short by unforeseen circumstances…
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Edward & Joan: A Plantagenet Love Story

“The most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving,” fourteenth-century French chronicler, Jean Froissart once said of Joan of Kent. Joan, known by the sobriquet of “the Fair Maid of Kent,” was thirty-two and recently widowed upon the…
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Royal Portraiture: Propaganda Painting

Today, images of the Royal Family are everywhere. As technology advances, we can instantly retrieve images of any member of the Royal Family, both in private and outperforming their royal duties. Now, because of this, the members of the royal family can be recognized instantly. However, this was not always the case, many of the royal portraits released by monarchs of the past were not very…
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Stories of the Stuarts: Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart

Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart was the second child of King James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. Born on 28th June 1692 at St-Germain-en-Laye, Louisa was referred to as The Princess Royal by her father’s supporters, the Jacobites. James Francis Edward and Louisa…
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Stories of the Stuarts: A Stuart Christmas feast

Christmas is just that time of the year where it is perfectly acceptable to eat and drink as much as you see fit. That theory even stood during the reign of the House of Stuart, probably in a bigger sense than it does today. King Charles I and his family spent several months…
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The stories of Queen Victoria's granddaughters: Princess Marie of Hesse

Looking at some of the many photographs taken of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as children, we often linger at some of these album prints and ponder over the lives that these little girls had when they reached adulthood. Queen Victoria would lose several grandsons including Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence as well as Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia, the sons of her eldest…
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Is the mystery of the 'Princes in the Tower' set to be uncovered?

Its one of the biggest mysteries in English history and in fact world history, who was responsible for the death of the two Princes in the Tower? While it seemed to many that the answer to this question would never be known, one Philippa Langley is preparing to crack the greatest of all cold cases. The Princes in the Tower. Philippa Langley is best known as a historian and screenwriter who…
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