TheUnited Kingdomis aconstitutional monarchy, in which themonarchshares power with a constitutionally organized government. The reigning king or queen is the country’shead of state. All political power rests with theprime minister(thehead of government) and thecabinet, and the monarch must act ...
andMatildade Braose, the wife of arecalcitrantMarcher baron, was starved to death with her son in a royal prison. But John wasculturedand literate. Conventional in his religion rather than devout, he was remembered for his benefactions to the church of Coventry, to Reading Abbey, and to Wor...
Mara Wilson is remembered for her memorable parts in flicks likeMrs. DoubtfireandMatilda. However, she also auditioned for the 1998 remake forThe Parent Trapbut was considered too young for the part (the role later went to Lindsay Lohan). Right before her acting retirement, Wilson received th...
As you can imagine, no one is sure about just how much of this remarkable story is true. But still, it's too good not to share! Getty Images 23. The Empress and the Queen The great irony of the Anarchy, and especially particularly the gender-bias against Empress Matilda, is that the...
After theAnglo-Saxons, came the vicious Vikings! Join the National Geographic Kids gang as we learn to live like a Scandinavian sea-warrior, in our ten fierce facts about the Vikings… Viking facts 1.The Vikings were famous for sailing huge distances from their home in Scandinavia between AD...
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Ramsay’s daughterMatildahas her own cooking show on CBBC calledMatildaand the Ramsay Bunch. The first series was released onApril 14, 2015, whenMatildawas just 14 years old. The young culinary enthusiast wrote and starred in her own series, which covered five series, with 75 episodes in tot...
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13. Lady Jane Grey was possibly the first queen of England. But some say that Empress Matilda was the first queen of England in the 12th century. Other historians claim that Lady Jane was never actually queen and that the first queen was Mary I. There’s much more to the Tudor time pe...
had died after marrying Catherine of Aragon and before he could become king—so Henry knew the risks of male heirs dying. Henry knew that the last time a woman (Matilda) was the heir to the throne, England was embroiled in a civil war. And the Wars of the Roses had been recent enough...