Whilst we're on that subject, it seems a good time to mention that we are in the final chapters of Part Two and will soon move on to Part Three. I'll be taking a week's break in between so that I can update my wiki which contains all my notes/biographies/plot points/family ...
(1) wiki: Caesarean Delivery (2) Rohl, John. The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 . (3) Rohl, John. Kaiser Wilhelm: A Concise Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Share this: Click to share on Twit...
the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign’s Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary, popularly known as theBeefeaters, are ceremonial guardians of theTower of London. In principle they are responsible for looking after any prisoners at the Tower and safeguarding the Bri...
On 2nd December 1804 there was another coronation. Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France. Pope Pius VII was apparently there to do the job but Napoleon preferred to do the job himself and make a statement about his relationship with the papacy. Most of the medieval crown jewels had been ...
Maharaja Duleep Singh in ceremonial attire in 1861, after his exile to Britain.Wikimedia A prize of conquest In April 1849, Koh-i-Noor was handed over to the British crown byLord Dalhousie, who from 1848 to 1856, was Governor-General of India, under the command of the British East India...