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1979: Record producer/songwriter, Van McCoy dies from a heart attack. On the same day, an IRA bomb explodes in the British consulate in Antwerp. 1986: In the 100th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis final, Boris ...
Royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith got details about Elizabeth and Harry’s alleged dynamic from the monarch’s cousin Lady ...
Families will have an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of kings, queens at knights in the castle's spectacular quadrangle ...
In 1461, Yorkist Edward IV was crowned King of England after deposing Henry VI from the House of Lancaster. In 1519, King Carlos I was elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V.
England is reeling from the sudden death of its beloved king. His heir, the newly-crowned Henry VI, is underage, unprepared—and unsuited to the throne. Personal feuds are running rampant.
Some people just weren't born to rule—and Henry VI was one of them. From his tragic childhood to his tumultuous reign and violent end, the feeble and weak-minded Henry managed to send England ...
Edward VI, the only surviving son of Henry VIII, was the first monarch to be raised a Protestant after his father split from Rome in order to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
Spare a thought for King Henry VI. Orlando Shakes returns to England’s War of the Roses with “Henry VI, Part 2: She-Wolf of France,” and it’s a rip-roaring royal rebellion of a time.
Famously, Henry VIII had three legitimate children: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI, whom he shared with his first three wives. All three took the throne at one time after Henry VIII’s death in ...
Henry IV was, since the Norman Conquest of three centuries prior, the first king of England for whom English was a mother tongue. An adventurer who had battled the pagans of the Lithuanian forests and ...