Treaty of Windsor
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Trooping the Colour is purely ceremonial these days, but in times gone by, when there was no instant communication on the battlefield, prior to the conflict the flag (colours) was paraded (trooped) up and down the lines of soldiers to remind them of exactly what their own flag looked like. This may sound unnecessary, but…
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A 19th century British reference to the Portuguese marriage
Annette Carson, Barrie Williams, Caroline Halsted, Cecilia, Clements Markham, Cortes, Domingos mauricio Gomes dos Santos, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Estoril, Henry Morse Stephens, Isabel of Aragon, Jeremy Potter, Joanna, Joao II, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Josephine Tey, Kincaid, Manuel, Paul Murray Kendall, Philip Lindsay, Portugal, Richard III, Sir George Buck, Sir Ralph Scrope, Treaty of WindsorThe facts of the proposed marriages of Richard III to Joana of Portugal and of Manoel of Beja to Elizabeth of York had, of course, been known in Portugal for a long time, before being published by Domingos Mauricio Gomes dos Santos in 1963. Arthur Kincaid picked up on this and mentioned the marriages in…
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