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Regicide: how Queen Victoria survived seven assassination attempts (part two)

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7th October 2014
<![CDATA[We continue with the accounts of Victoria's attempted assassinations, covering her last three assailant's stories, as well as a few others that got rather close to her. Victoria faced the most assassination attempts in centuries 5. In June 1850, Robert Pate became the fifth person to make an attempt on Victoria’s life. Once more, her children witnessed the attack…
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The women behind the Crown: Influential Queen Mothers - Anne Boleyn

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1st October 2014
<![CDATA[The role of a mother can have an impact on any child, but how much impact does she have on her child if they are in line to the throne? In previous blog posts Katherine of Aragon, Margaret Beaufort, and Eleanor of Aquitane were all examined (a full list of the series can be found here) in order to understand how they may have influenced their children who later became Monarchs. Queen…
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History Rewind: Mary Queen of Scots crowned

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9th September 2014
<![CDATA[On 9th September 1543, a child that was barely a year old was crowned Queen of Scotland in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle. Mary, Queen of Scots, would go on to be one of the more embattled Queen's in history. Nobody would be surprised, considering the burden that she was shouldering as Monarch of a very turbulent Scotland. For a female to be crowned in Scotland, it was…
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History Rewind: Birth of Queen Elizabeth I

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7th September 2014
<![CDATA[On 7th September 1533, Anne Boleyn gave birth to King Henry VIII's second child at Greenwich Palace. Disappointingly for him, it was another girl. Elizabeth’s childhood was a somewhat difficult and complex one after losing her mother at the tender age…
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Review: Wolf Hall - Aldwych Theatre, London

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1st September 2014
<![CDATA[ Mike Poulton’s theatrical adaptions of Hilary Mantel’s two Man Booker prize winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, have consistently received five star reviews from newspapers and critics alike since it debuted in Stratford-upon-Avon last December. These productions moved to Aldwych Theatre in May and even though, due to sheer popular demand, it has been…
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