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3 days ago · Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland , but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest ...
21 hours ago · Charles Spencer, the younger sibling of the late Princess Diana has poignantly revealed how he still visits her grave on a near daily basis, almost three decades on since her tragic death
2 days ago · Next before his Majesty went the Earl of Arundel as Earl-Marshal of England, and the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High Constable of England for that day. The King being cloathed in white Sattin, went under a rich Canopy, supported by the Barons of the Cinque Ports, the King having on each hand a Bishop, and his Train of Purple Velvet was carried ...
3 days ago · Political turmoil in 17th-century Europe threw up exciting pickings for Charles I’s art collection. But after a civil war that led to his execution, his masterpieces were dispersed across the globe.
4 days ago · In the year 1765 a portrait of Charles I was discovered in the double panelling of the room on the first floor at the north end of the house adjoining the chapel. In a room at the south end of the house he is said to have slept.
2 days ago · Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
3 days ago · Elizabeth I (born September 7, 1533, Greenwich, near London, England—died March 24, 1603, Richmond, Surrey) was the queen of England (1558–1603) during a period, often called the Elizabethan Age, when England asserted itself vigorously as a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts.
