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Hace 2 días · The Duke of Westminster led a relatively quiet life as a child and teenager, attending a local private primary before enrolling in the private Mostyn House School, then Ellesmere College in Shropshire. Later, he attended Newcastle University, where he got his degree in Countryside Management.
Hace 4 días · The following quaint verses on the royal tombs in Westminster Abbey are taken from a work about two centuries and a half old; but the sentiments, though the author of the lines is unknown, belong to all ages:—
Hace 2 días · The ancient Royal Palace of Westminster was a magnificent and extensive pile, in part covering the ground now occupied by the two large areas or courts known as Old Palace Yard and New Palace Yard, and it consisted of a great number of buildings destined to various purposes.
Hace 2 días · Olivia Henson and Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster are due to marry in a matter of days. The Marlborough alumna has snapped up one of the most eligible bachelors in the land, so who is the bride-to-be?
Hace 1 día · Edward was buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey on 8 August 1553, with reformed rites performed by Thomas Cranmer. The procession was led by "a grett company of chylderyn in ther surples" and watched by Londoners "wepyng and lamenting"; the funeral chariot, draped in cloth of gold, was topped by an effigy of Edward, with crown, sceptre, and garter. [183]
Hace 3 días · María huyó a Inglaterra buscando la protección de su prima, la reina Isabel I, tras ser derrotada en la batalla de Langside y verse obligada a abdicar del trono de Escocia. Lo cierto es que la llegada de María Estuardo a Inglaterra en 1568 marcó un punto de inflexión en la historia de ambas reinas y en las relaciones entre Escocia e ...
Hace 5 días · Westminster was the second mitred abbey in the kingdom, and its abbot, before the Reformation, had a seat among the peers of Parliament; but it would astonish most readers, even devout Roman Catholics, to learn that at this day there are in existence four "reverend" or "very reverend" gentlemen who style themselves the "Abbots" of ...
