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The first named person to appear in Amersham Museum’s Timeline is Queen Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor, and the last Anglo Saxon Queen ...
The Prince and Princess of Wales will join the King and Queen in granting Royal Warrants — a sort of "seal of approval" — on ...
Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...
The Sovereign Grant costs about £1.29 per UK citizen, said the Royal Household, but the taxpayer foots many other bills.
The British royal family’s train will be retired by 2027, as part of a cost-saving measure announced by Buckingham Palace on ...
The legend of a Viking king's attempt to turn back the tide has been depicted in a mosaic. King Canute (also known as Cnut) ...
There is something almost regal about Wales’s deputy first minister Huw Irranca-Davies – tall, distinguished-looking beard, worldly wise facial ...
A historical novel and a love story of great merit and quite unusual interest is "The Ward of King Canute," by Ottille A. Liljencrantz, author of "The Thrall of Lief, the Lucky." ...
Harthacnut, her son with Cnut, and Edward the Confessor, her first son with Æthelred, served on the throne successively until 1066, the same year Emma’s great-nephew William the Conqueror also ...
A king, or a president, can have no effect on global warming and other examples of climate change by commanding the atmosphere and the oceans to stop heating up. The laws of chemistry, and of ...
King Canute can command the tides to recede all he likes, but the rising tide pays no attention to his royal wishes. But the perhaps apocryphal story of the actual ancient English king, crowned in ...
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