Although intelligent, Charlotte was reported to have received a very mediocre education, her father, Duke Charles, died when she was but eight years old and was succeeded as Duke of ...

In 1794, at the age of twenty-six, Caroline was engaged to George Prince of Wales, the eldest son of her maternal uncle George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The couple, although cousins, ...

Edmund, Earl of Rutland was the second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet Duke of York and his wife Cecily Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, herself the ...

Finding their northern base of operations was threatened, the Lancastrians mounted a rebellion in the North of England, aimed at disrupting the peace negotiations between Edward IV and the Scots, ...

The House of Plantagenet had its origins in a cadet branch of the original counts of Anjou, the dynasty established by Fulk I of Anjou at the beginning of the tenth century. The Plantagenet dynasty ...

The Battle of Watling Street, one of the bloodiest battles in ancient British history, was fought in the year 60 or 61 AD between an alliance of the British tribes led by Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, ...

The Dark Age Battle of Mount Badon, known to the Welsh as Mynydd Baddon, was fought between the Britons and an invading force of Anglo-Saxons sometime between 490 and 517 AD. The Saxons were defeated ...

The Act of Supremacy, passed in 1534, established King Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the English Church. The Reformation Parliament of 1529-1536 approved the king's break with the see of Rome, as ...

Wolsey's Closet, a strikingly attractive room, is now the solitary survivor of Cardinal Wolsey's apartments. It is situated in a range of buildings east of Clock Court. The painted panels in the room ...

England's first Yorkist King, Edward IV, was the eldest surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Cecily Neville and was born on 22nd April, 1442 at Rouen, whilst the Duke was stationed ...

Edgar of Wessex was born circa 942, the second son of Edmund the Elder Saint Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury. He was sixteen when he ascended the throne on the death of his elder brother, Edwy in October 959.

When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...