Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance and determination.
However, 3.5 per cent of pupils applying, which is around 300, have not been offered a place at any of their preferences.
If the committee-approved memorial of Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park is to be imaginative, well realised and uplifting, it may need a total rethink, says Jonathan Glancey ...
From Cillian Murphy and Will Smith to Sidney Poitier and Daniel Day-Lewis, a roll call of every Best Actor winner since the ...
The late Queen Elizabeth II was fiercely anti-smoking - and she had good reason to be. Smoking played a large part in the ...
When the president arrived at Balmoral, the Queen shook his hand and a lone bagpiper sounded the "Royal Salute". Eisenhower, ...
King Henry VI of England left his pregnant wife Margaret of Anjou at home and travelled from court to the West Country on a judicial visit. Stopping off at Clarendon Palace in Wiltshire the ...