A double royal assassination stuns portugal

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

In 1494, the high castle walls that had dominated the Middle Ages came tumbling down in clouds of gunpowder smoke. It was the start of a new age

‘I felt that I should like to kiss the hands that had awakened a new world of music for me.’ The year was 1888, the occasion was the Paris debut of a 27-year-old pianist named Ignacy Jan Paderewski. A

ARAPILES, SALAMANCA, SPAIN 22 JULY 1812

THE LIFE AND SCANDAL OF PRINCESS LOUISE, PRINCE ALBERT’S MOTHER

The palace of Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most remarkable esoteric sites in Europe, claimed to overshadow Rennesle-Château and Rosslyn chapel.1 To enter it is to step into the set for a strange