Beginning with the first-photographed and second-longest ruling Monarch in British History, the mighty Victoria, we discover how this once sheltered and virtually penniless girl came to rule an Empire spanning half the globe. The founder of modern Monarchy in Great Britain and across the world, Victoria's impact upon her country and people is inestimable.
Meet the Normans: famous for fighting at Hastings in 1066, being shot in the New Forest, eating far too many lampreys and having far too many affairs. Not to mention starving in Oxford Castle, murdering Thomas Becket, fighting The Crusades, signing The Magna Carta and losing their jewels in the W...
A tale of four Georges and a William beset by bad father-son relationships and bouts of mysterious madness. The Stuarts played out their petty rivalries in Palace and Court in an atmosphere of over-indulgence, decadence, obesity and addiction whilst thousands died in the bloody battle of Culloden...
Henry III was given a polar bear by the King of Norway in 1252. He kept it in the Tower of London and took it to the river Thames each morning to swim and catch fish. That's just one of the eye-catching true tales in this medieval miscellany.
