Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy
Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance ...
I’m not sure this group is going to be able to come up with a memorial fit for a Queen
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 ...
See Every Best Actor Winner in the History of the Oscars (Including the Star Who's Taken Home 3 Golden Statuettes!)
See every Best Actor Oscar winner from 1929 onward, from the first honoree Emil Jannings to recent recipients such as Will ...
Revealed: All the royals and socialites who have been caught secretly smoking cigarettes - despite Queen Elizabeth's fierce stance
The late Queen Elizabeth II was fiercely anti-smoking - and she had good reason to be. Smoking played a large part in the ...
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Henry VI: What Was The King's Great Mysterious Illness?
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 ...
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Here are top 10 universities in the UK
It is essential for prospective candidates to know the status of schools abroad before applying for obvious reasons. In this ...
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Dan Snow Rates Portrayals of English Kings and Queens in Movies
Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, historian Dan Snow reviews depictions of kings and queens of England and Great ...
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King George VI and the Queen Mother narrowly escaped death in the bombing of Buckingham Palace during the Blitz - but the man who supplied 'inside information' to the Nazis was ...
King George VI was sitting in a small room overlooking ... with the Duke urging the Nazis to bomb Britain 'to make England ready for peace'. In the event of a successful invasion, the alleged ...
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George Martin out of Scotland clash as England call up Ted Hill
England lock George Martin has been ruled out of Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations showdown against Scotland. The 23-year-old Leicester player, who was due to be on Steve Borthwick’s bench for ...
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Stoke City Wembley heroes bid farewell to all-time great George Eastham
Eastham had been in the England World ... Simon King, Stoke’s chief operating officer, said: “He had a truly wonderful career. When we watch back George’s most famous goal in the countdown ...