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Could Henry I be the next car-park King?
The world has just witnessed the last Plantagenet King, Richard III, be reburied at Leicester Cathedral and now researchers believe that a second Monarch could be buried under a car-park in Reading....
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800 years of Law and Liberty: Magna Carta is sealed
The date is 15th June 1215 and in Runnymede, Windsor, King John has just sealed one of the most important documents in Medieval England and a document that has become recognised as a cornerstone of...
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Queen marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta at Runnymede
800 years ago on 15 June 1215 insurgent Baron Leaders trooped on London where they were greeted by a swelling crowd of defectors from King John’s royalist followers. The demands of this group would...
View ArticleA new debate opens up about Russia’s imperial family
The debate about whether the Romanov dynasty could return to Russia has taken another turn with a lawmaker asking the two people who claim to be the family’s head in 2015 to come back to the country....
View ArticleRichard III reburied – History fans get a chance to vote on whether The King...
Earlier this year, King Richard III was reburied with great fanfare at Leicester Cathedral. The reinterment took place after months of research and DNA analysis to determine whether the bones found...
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Pilgrimage made to honour medieval Queen of Scots
More than a thousand people have flocked to a Scottish town to take part in a pilgrimage honouring the 11th century Queen of Scots, St Margaret. The relics of Margaret were carried aloft through the...
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Mary, Queen of Scots festival to be held in Kinross-shire
She is one of the most recognised figures in Scottish history, and her son went on to become the first King of both England and Scotland. Now, Mary Queen of Scots, is to be honored with her own...
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The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Charlotte of Prussia
On this day in 1860, Queen Victoria welcomed her first granddaughter. She was a young grandmamma, just 41 at the time, but the baby girl born in Berlin 155 yeas ago today was Victoria’s second...
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The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Louise of Wales
On this day, 126 years ago, a shy young woman married a man almost two decades older than her in London. But this was no ordinary wedding. The bride was Princess Louise of Wales, granddaughter of Queen...
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Remembering the Queen Mother on the anniversary of her birth
Tuesday 4th August is The Queen Mother’s birthday (and may I also give a birthday wish to my Dad, who was born on the same day). Many books are out on the shelves about Elizabeth-Bowes Lyon, who would...
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The stories of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters: Princess Victoria of Wales
‘No one has ever had a sister like her’. The words of King George V, written about a younger sibling known to her family as Toria, perhaps best sum up the life of one of the quietest of Queen...
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King Richard III brings extra visitors to Leicester on the first Bosworth...
For years, August 22nd was the one time in the year when the focus really fell on Richard III. The last king of the House of York lost his throne and his life on that date when he lost the Battle of...
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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...
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Monarchy Rules: stories from Queen Elizabeth II to Alfred the Great
After the success of our series: A Victorian Family Tree: the story of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters as well as celebrating Her Majesty’s record breaking reign, we begin our new series: Monarchy...
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Monarchy Rules: a look at King George VI
King George VI to me, is the underdog of the modern monarchy. A man who did not aspire to be King, nor groomed to be such, yet guided a nation through troubled economic times and war. A military man,...
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The very royal history of the Queen Mother’s Clothing Guild
Later this week, people from across the United Kingdom will meet in a room in St James’ Palace to pack lots of knitted clothes into bags. This tradition has been going on for many years and it can...
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The votes are counted and Bannockburn is the most decisive battle, according...
The Battle of Bannockburn has been named as the most decisive battle fought in the British Isles, according to a recent poll by BBC News. A painting depicting the Battle of Bannockburn. The clash...
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Monarchy Rules: a look at William IV
William IV was the man who left his throne to Queen Victoria but he was king for just seven years and heir to the throne for only three years before that. And yet he holds the record, at the moment, as...
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The bodies of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia are exhumed
The bodies of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia have been exhumed so that experts can take samples of their DNA to help answer one of the last unanswered questions about the murder of Nicholas II and...
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