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MARY I ~ TYRANT OR TRAILBLAZER Known as a Catholic tyrant and branded a religious bigot for her ferocious persecution… Read More
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QUEEN ELIZABETH I Elizabeth I - the last Tudor monarch - was born at Greenwich on 7th September 1533. Elizabeth,… Read More
Mary Queen of Scots has long been written about and portrayed as the beautiful, tragic cousin queen of Elizabeth I.… Read More
MARIE ANTOINETTE - LET THEM EAT CAKE!! The famous quote "let them eat cake" has been constantly misattributed to Marie… Read More
The Fall Of Anne Boleyn The May Day Joust of 1536, was the first outward sign that something was wrong… Read More
Princess Alexandrina Victoria, was born 24th May 1819, at Kensington Palace - the London home of her parents the Duke… Read More
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Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London & Anne Boleyn's Jailer Sir William Kingston was born around 1476,… Read More
Edwardian Ladies Edwardian refers to the late 1890s and 1914. Also called La Belle Epoque, and the Gilded Age, this… Read More
The 'ghostly' pregnancies of Queen Mary I Born on 18th February 1516, Mary Tudor was the daughter of King Henry… Read More
Queen Mary’s Bath House-Edinburgh, Scotland Queen Mary’s Bath House in Edinburgh, is a beautiful turreted building, that lies abandoned on… Read More
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