
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
As BBC Four broadcasts a new series on King Charles I, Tony McMahon asks whether we should side with Roundheads or Royalists
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
With Harry and Meaghan getting married – a look back at royal weddings that have gone horribly wrong
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?
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