Richard III
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We all know by now that the usurper Henry Tudor, aka Henry VII, was born in Pembroke. The town even boasts a statue of him. Not that he ever did much for the Welsh. He was entirely self-seeking, and had his diminutive mother cracking the whip behind him. Well, we always imagine her being the…
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I have just watched the excellent 2021 film The Dig, about the 1939 discovery of the amazing treasures of Sutton Hoo. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan and I thoroughly enjoyed it…but then, out of interest, I read more online. And lo! Yet again the truth had been tampered with from the moment the…
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“….In the summer of 1553, a dying boy sat on England’s throne….” Edward VI was dying. He was only fifteen and unmarried, (https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Edward-VI/) so there was no chance of him producing a son or daughter. This left his two older half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, as heirs to the English throne. We all know the story…
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The specialist contractors (the Olivetti Group) who worked on the burial area of Richard’s Greyfriars resting place (now relocated to the Richard III Visitors Centre) have used the word “eerie” to describe the experience. Their task was to replace the protective glazing that protects it, which was cracked by a bottle accidentally dropped by a…
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“….Josephine Tey biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson set to publish second works on renowned Inverness crime writer – and is ready for teaching role at University of Oxford….” Jennifer Morag Henderson, author of Josephine Tey: A Life, is to write a second book about the much loved author of The Daughter of Time, which has done…
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Here (https://tinyurl.com/mrynu37) is a beautifully illustrated history of 700-year-old Warwick Castle, courtesy of the magazine Country Life, which can be relied upon to produce magnificent articles. The story of this amazing stronghold begins with William the Conqueror in 1068, and passed on through an awesome list of monarchs: William Rufus, Henry I, Henry II, Henry…
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“….Work to replace a cracked glazed panel that covers the original burial site of King Richard III [got] under way on Wednesday (8 July)….The king’s grave – formerly located in the choir of the long-gone Greyfriars Priory – is now part of Leicester’s award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre and has been glazed over since…
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It was a blisteringly hot summer day — the kind that made even the cathedral’s cool stone feel faintly warm to the touch. The vicar sat slumped in a pew, his collar limp, fanning himself weakly with a service sheet. Around him, several electric fans whirred in a tired, half‑hearted way. Richard drifted over, frowning…
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So, now Edward IV died of a sexually transmitted disease, to wit – syphilis. And before you get up on your hind legs to shout that syphilis didn’t come to Europe until the time of Columbus, it has now apparently been proved that its parent infection (treponematosis) had been here since ancient times. Read here…
