When Queen Elizabeth II died, it was announced that her heir would be known as King Charles III, and his wife would be known as the Queen Consort. But that changed when the palace released an image of the invitation to the coronation, which referred to Charles' wife as...
'Tis not the King that sends you to the Tower;My Lady Grey his wife,Clarence,'tis she That tempers him to this extremity.Was it not she and that good man of worship,Antony Woodville,her brother there,That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,From whence this present day he is ...
As the individual who held that title longer than anyone else, Charles's life was alwaysin the public eye- and under the scrutiny of the media. From his relationship withPrincess Dianaand his long-time affair with future wife Camilla Parker Bowles, to all of the details about Charles we sa...
But other facts do not match the stories about Richard’s crooked character. While his brother Edward was king, Richard was loyal to him. As a soldier, he fought for Edward in many battles. Richard also had a loving relationship with his wife and his own son. Voice 2 We also know that...
'Tis not the King that sends you to the Tower;My Lady Grey his wife,Clarence,'tis she That tempers him to this extremity.Was it not she and that good man of worship,Antony Woodville,her brother there,That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,From whence this present day he is ...
His wife, Anne, never recovered from the loss of her son, and died almost a year later. Her body was borne to Westminster Abbey and laid to rest on the south side of St. Edward’s Chapel. Richard wept openly at her funeral and shut himself off for three days. In eighteen months, ...
Richard was forced to deny to his council that he had poisoned her to marry his niece, Elizabeth. This extraordinary event gives an insight into how people thought of Richard; he seems to have been truly heartbroken by his wife’s death, but his previous behaviour evidently meant that his ...
Richard II’s second wife was seven-year-old Isabella of Valois who married Richard in 1396. This marriage was childless as she was far too young to bear children but Richard treated her well. After Richard's death, Isabella of Valois returned to France, married again, and died in childbir...
Henry’s bid for the crown was “almost like his last throw of the dice,” Amin says. “He has nothing going for him in exile. He has no money, no wife, no family.” If Henry lost to Richard, he’d likely be executed for treason. But in ...
Unlike Princess Diana, Charles' first wife and the spouse whom many people still carry a torch for more than 25 years after her death, Camilla never felt the pressure to be anything other than herself—because she had, technically, gone off to live her own life by the time Charle...