Baker needed stitches making prize-winning Tudor cake
A baker had to get seven stitches in her hand during the process of making an award-winning cake of a Tudor-era monarch. Emma ...
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Liv Hill, Siena Kelly and Tanya Reynolds to Star in 1536 at The Almeida Theatre
Liv Hill, Siena Kelly and Tanya Reynolds are cast in the world premiere of Ava Pickett’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning ...
The REAL face of Henry VII? Experts to scan 500-year-old funeral effigy head to find out how medieval craftsman made it so lifelike
The effigy rested atop Henry's coffin during his funeral in 1509. The head is all that survives after the body was destroyed ...
Is this the real face of Henry VII? Westminster Abbey is hoping to finally find out
The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present ...
The most popular British monarch revealed... and it is NOT King Charles III: Interactive graphic reveals who the public thinks were the nation's best rulers over the centuries
When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.
David Starkey: ‘I’ve witnessed the disintegration of everything that I loved in Britain’
I am an impertinent old bugger,” says Dr David Starkey, “and I refuse to be shut up.” I meet him at his London flat, sit and ...
‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...
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The Ascension of William and Mary, Britain’s First Co-Monarchs, Marked a Victory for Protestantism
The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight ...
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King Henry VIII named least popular British monarch – beheading wives can't have helped
With around 63 monarchs spanning over 1,200 years, the UK have been sharing their thoughts on their favourite of the historic ...
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King and Queen celebrate Italian cuisine at Highgrove dinner with Stanley Tucci
The King and Queen will join Hollywood star Stanley Tucci for a black tie dinner to celebrate Italian cuisine at Highgrove on Friday evening. The pair have invited the Italian-American Devil Wears ...
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Rare letter to Elizabeth I from possible love interest sold for £32,700
It contains 82 pages of remedies, at least 25 of them written by Dr William Fyffe, who was honorary physician to the King for the county of Lancashire ... the contrasting portraits of England’s two ...