George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
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The Stuarts aren’t our period of course, but this link is interesting and worth a read. The opening line reads as follows: “….Beautiful, charismatic and cunning, George Villiers caught the eye of one king, was the favourite of another, and soared to heights of power and wealth in 17th-century England – only to…
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I remember the good old days when a visit to Stonehenge meant actually walking around inside it, instead of having to view it from paths at a distance. You could just park and walk, without all the razzmatazz that applies today. Some people even sat on the lower stones! Shock, horror. Closing the monument off…
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King James VI of Scotland, James I of England podcast….
“favourites”, Abdication, Agnes Sampson, Anna Whitelock, Anne of Denmark, Arbella Stuart, assassination, Basilikon Doron, BBC, Bible translators, Bye plot, Calvinism, Charles I, Counterblast against tobacco, David Rizzio, Edinburgh Castle, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Stuart, Esme Stuart, executions, Fotheringhay, Frederick of Bohemia, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Greg Jenner, Gunpowder Plot, Henrietta Maria, Henry Lord Darnley, Henry Stuart, James Earl of Morton, James VI/I, Jamestown, King James Bible, Larry Dean, Mary Stuart, New World discoveries, North Berwick trials, Oath of Allegiance, podcasts, Popish Recusants Act, Radio 4, Regency, Roanoke, Robert Carr Earl of Somerset, Robert Catesby, Robert Cecil, Ruthven Raid, Scotland, Sir Walter Raleigh, Spain, Stirling Castle, Stuarts, The wisest fool in Christendom, Thirty Years’ War, tobacco, Union Jack, Union of the Crowns, voyage to Denmark, Wicked Bible, witchcraft, You’re dead to meHere is a link to a BBC podcast about King James VI of Scotland, who, of course, became James I of England and was the first of our Stuart monarchs. I can’t say I’m a Stuart expert, being much more interested in the Plantagenets, but a monarch is a monarch!
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Britain’s Most Historic Towns (2)
“Tudors”, Alice Roberts, ATS, Ben Robinson, Black Death, Bristol, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Cardiff, Channel Four, Charles I, chocolate, city walls, coal, defences, Demonology, Dover, dressing up, Dunkirk, Edwardian era, England, English Civil War, Flodden, France, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Georgian era, gin, Henry VIII, James III, James IV, James V, James VI/I, Magna Carta, Marquess of Bute, Mary Stuart, New Model Army, Oxford, Peasants’ Revolt, Plantagenet era, real tennis, Rough Wooing, Sauchieburn, Scottish Reformation, Second World War, Siege of Oxford, slavery, Solway Moss, St. Augustine, Stewarts, Stirling, Stirling Castle, Thomas Becket, witchcraftThis excellent Channel Four programme, presented by Professor Alice Roberts, with Dr. Ben Robinson in the helicopter, has returned for a new series. The early venues were Dover (World War Two, visiting the underground base, concentrating on the retreat from Dunkirk and subsequent Channel defence, meeting some survivors, wearing ATS uniform and riding in a…
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Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham
Dukes of Buckingham, Edward of Buckingham, executions, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Greys, Henry of Buckingham, Hester Grenville, India, Lady Kinloss, Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, Madras, Nevilles, Plantagenet descent, Prime Ministers, Sheffields, Staffords, Stowe House, Temple-Grenvilles, Villiers, Viscount Palmerston, William Pitt the Elder, William Pitt the YoungerWhen Ricardians come across the title Duke of Buckingham, they immediately link it to Henry Stafford who was the second Duke of the first creation of this Dukedom and the prime suspect in the disappearance of Edward V and Richard of York, better known as the “Princes” in the Tower. The Dukedom of Buckingham has…
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A cursed title?
BBC, Bendor Grosvenor, Britain’s lost Masterpieces, CABAL, Charles I, Charles II, Dukes of Buckingham, Edward of Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Glasgow, Grenvilles, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VIII, high treason, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, James VI/I, Kelvinside, Leicestershire, Northampton, portraits, Richard III, Rubens, Sheffields, titlesThis very informative BBC documentary, presented by Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, showed how a portrait, presently on display in Glasgow, was proved to be an original Rubens. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was a courtier and soldier, serving under both James VI/I and Charles I as well as being a possible partner of the former.…
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Who’s buried where in Westminster Abbey….
“Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Anne Mowbray, Charles Duke of Richmond, Edward IV, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Henry VII, Katherine Manners Duchess of Buckingham, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Countess of Lennox, Mary I, Mary Stuart, royal burials, St. george’s Chapel, Stuarts, Westminster AbbeyWell, if you have the stamina, here’s a link that will tell you all about who’s buried where in Westminster Abbey. Including, of course, that urn, which a later dynasty decided should be in Henry VII’s chapel. Hmm. Wouldn’t you think it should have been at Windsor, alongside the boy’s father, Edward IV? But…
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