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Showing posts with label Queens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queens. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2018

When did our kings and queens start using surnames?

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History Extra Monarchs in Britain have adopted second names such as ‘Fair’, ‘Ironside’ or ‘Harefoot’ since at least the ninth century....
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

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History Extra Isabella I of Castille, Anne de Beaujeu and Catherine of Aragon were three of the queens linked by a complex web of mothe...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The 10 best English queens in history

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History Extra 1) Bertha of Kent (539–c612) Perhaps the most well known of all the pre-Conquest queens, Bertha played a crucial role in...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts

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History Extra 15th-century banquet. © The Art Archive / Alamy  Rys Lumbard Stondyne Period: England, 14th century Description: Swee...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

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History Extra A 1942 Cecil Beaton portrait of the 16-year-old princess Elizabeth as colonel of the Grenadier Guards. (Getty/Popperf...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

9 of the worst monarchs in history

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History Extra Mary, Queen of Scots lacked political skill says Sean Lang. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Woodvilles

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History Extra Elizabeth Woodville (1437–1492) in 1463. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) king ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Isabella of France: the rebel queen

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History Extra Isabella of France. From the book 'Our Queen Mothers' by Elizabeth Villiers (1936). (Photo by Universal His...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

To kidnap a king: the foiled plot to abduct Edward VI

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History Extra King Edward VI by an unknown artist after Hans Holbein the Younger. Oil on panel, c1542, National Portrait Gallery, Lon...