Edward Windsor goes to Farnborough to find a corner of England that is forever France - and unearths the reason why Aldershot is so strongly linked with the army. We keep faith with the military theme by visiting Stratfield Saye, home of the Duke of Wellington, and find out that Queen Victoria was definitely not amused by the temperature of the house!
The flower festival of Corpus Christi provides the backdrop as Edward Windsor investigates one of the oldest hereditary titles in the land - The Earl of Arundel. They are still responsible for organising many of England’s grandest state occasions, nearly one thousand years after they first held t...
In 1174 a few ill-chosen words from Henry II changed the course of history. The murder of Thomas Becket shook the whole of Christendom to its roots. But as Edward Windsor discovers, this darkest hour for Canterbury led to the creation of the most visited shrine in the Kingdom and brought untold w...
Edward Windsor travels overseas for the first in a new series of Crown and Country to the Isle of Wight. He discovers that an ancestor of his was responsible for the first salvage dive below the ocean and learns how the town records for Yarmouth came to be thrown away! He also has a brush with a ...
