There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...

Seward, who has written on the Tudors and the Hundred Years’ War, gives a whirlwind overview of the Plantagenet kings, from Henry II through Richard III (1154–1485). The book focuses on men, battles, ...

Police investigating a man's death east of Ottawa say he was stabbed and they've now charged a local man with second-degree murder. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said Friday in a news release ...

Thanks to Shakespeare, the Plantagenet dynasty in England—ruling for more than three centuries—is most often remembered for one of its more controversial members, Richard III, the last Plantagenet to ...

Dr Philip Shaw analysed two letters written by 15th Century king of England An academic has recorded what he thinks could be the accent of Richard III - and was surprised to realise he may have talked ...

We are all determined to learn lessons from the pandemic. For many of us, it has brought the realisation that we take too much for granted. In 2020, as we hunkered down for the first lockdown, the ...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." This quote - often attributed to Gandhi but more likely to have come from a 1914 report to the Amalgamated Clothing ...

Save articles for future reference. Mr Berry has a long association with Plantagenet. “I’ve been with Plantagenet for 16 years and I’ve watched it grow from a 150 tonnes to 2,500 tonnes and gone from ...

Australia’s second oldest family business, Lionel Samson Sadleirs, has sold its Plantagenet Wine business to Tom Wisdom, a sixth-generation descendant of founder Lionel Samson. Mr Wisdom said he and ...