Why I prefer Roundheads to Royalists
As BBC Four broadcasts a new series on King Charles I, Tony McMahon asks whether we should side with Roundheads or Royalists
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Politicians lynched by the London mob
In the past, politicians were lynched by mobs because they had fallen ouf of favour and as Tony McMahon discovers, politics was a dangerous business
Royal Weddings – tragic and comic events
With Harry and Meaghan getting married – a look back at royal weddings that have gone horribly wrong
How Anne of Cleves kept her head!
Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of Henry VIII often overlooked because she wasn’t beheaded but how did this resourceful and clever woman survive?
Why Henry VIII had no friends
King Henry VIII had not friends at the end of his life having executed Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell and lost a few wives as well