Margaret Rose was born in 1930,
four years after her sister, Princess Elizabeth, at Glamis
Castle in Scotland, which was her mother's ancestral home. At
the time of her birth, George V was the reigning monarch, making
Margaret the fourth-in-line to the throne. Margaret's mother, the
then Duchess of York, wanted to call her second daughter
Ann Margaret, as she thought the two names…
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
Elizabeth I is one of England’s most…
Queen to make statement on Scottish independence result tomorrow
18th September 2014
Polls closed just a short while ago at
10pm and the votes are now being counted up at polling
stations across Scotland before the big result on the question of
whether Scotland shall be an independent country will be
answered tomorrow morning. A short while ago…
Canterbury Panel commemorating 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta completed
16th September 2014
Royal School of Needlework member Rhoda
Nevins was commissioned by Runnymede Borough Council to design and
embroider the twelve panel tapestry to mark the 800th anniversary.
Each of the 12 panels tells the story of the events and the
significant figures involved. Each Magna Carta Trust town will have
its own panel. The panels will represent Runnymede, Bury St
Edmunds, St Albans, the City of…
For a female to be crowned in Scotland,
it was evident that the country was experiencing a severe
succession crisis. Being at such a young age, the Scottish Lords
found it very difficult to respect her and so Mary was sent to
France for her safety. Mary lived and grew up in…
another girl. Elizabeth’s childhood was a
somewhat difficult and complex one after losing her mother at the
tender age of two. Elizabeth and her half-sister, Mary, were
declared illegitimate as Henry VIII sought to create space for his
male heir, Edward, after his third…
When Her Majesty ascended the Throne back
in 1952, she became known as ‘Queen Elizabeth II’. However, some of
her subjects in Scotland considered her to be Queen Elizabeth I,
considering that the original Elizabeth I had never ruled over
Scotland. The fact that Her Majesty was considered their second
Queen Elizabeth was somewhat unacceptable to many Scots. So let’s
skip forward to 28th…
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…
The document in question relates to an
estate in France where one of the country's biggest and bloodiest
massacres took place. More than 60 Protestant worshippers were
slayed in a barn in Wassy in North East France in 1562. The
massacre sent shockwaves not just through…
Saturday in Chicago by Cindy Stockman It
was early Saturday evening and I tuned into NPR (National Public
Radio) to catch the BBC news. What I thought was a typical evening
of listening to the news before heading out to dinner proved to be
wrong. It was Sunday morning in Paris and reports were coming in
that Diana, Princess of Wales had been in a car accident. The
reports were frenetic and the…
