King Henry VIII Tuck Case for the British Monarchy Cards This year marks King Henry VIII's 524th birthday. This tuck case features the beautiful British Monarchy playing cards in a new tuck case featuring one of the most-talked about Kings in British history. This allows you to get the Bri...
I first came upon Henry the Young King, as he came to be known, when I was researching William Marshal, as Marshal began his career in the royal household as Young Henry’s tutor in arms and effectively the captain of his knights (Marshal will be elucidated later in this post). The po...
He was better known by his stage name Jethro from his years with Henry D. Haynes as part of the comedic musical duo Homer and Jethro beginning in 1936. Albums: Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns, S'Wonderful King Curtis Rock music, ...
Located just to the east of St Edward the Confessor’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey is the lavishly ornate Lady Chapel built on the orders of King Henry VII. Described as the “last masterpiece of English medieval architecture”, the chapel is the resting place of King Henry VII and his wif...
Thus, the Yeomen of the Guard were formed to protect the newly crowned King Henry VII. In the centuries since, their steadfast commitment to the monarchy remains as immovable as ever. While they no longer bear the harquebus or a quiver of arrows from days of yore, nor guard the sovereign...
Effigies of King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York. PICTURE:Ann Longmore-Etheridge/Public domain The couple were the first to be buried in a vault under the floor rather than a tomb but still features an elaborate monument above the floor. ...
– I discovered that C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner are at the root of a famous verse tradition. …Who wrote this bit [in “Quest of the Starstone”]? Moore was the poet of the pair, but Kuttner was no slouch, and the title itself is a callback to two previous tales. In “Shamble...
~John Skelton, 1522, “Why come ye not to Court,” in Pithy, Pleasaunt, and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, to King Henry the VIIIth, 1736 In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ~English proverb, early 16th century, A Dictionary of the Prove...
He was not, however, the first bear to live there – King Henry III had been given a polar bear by King Haakon IVHaakonsson of Norway in 1251 (George, however, was apparently unimpressed with his gift, said to have commented in private that he would have preferred a tie or pair of ...
You're invited to join us in this unmistakable world when Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 releases on 4th February 2025. A scripted live-action series starring Tom McKay and Luke Dale, the lead actors of KCD II, bringing their Henry & Hans buddy chemistry from 1403 into a modern-day setting....