James ii and vii had kept his throne?

Originally built in 1703, as the London home of the Duke of Buckingham, Buckingham House was acquired by the newly married King George III in 1761, as an escape from the nearby St James’s Palace, the

Marian Boswall believes the monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact

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Such was George III’s passion for astronomy that he had an observatory built to observe the transit of Venus. Although his interest remains unrivalled, scientific curiosity gripped the Royal Family for centuries, as Matthew Dennison reveals

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

In September 1401, the monks of the monastery of Bury St Edmunds awaited with trepidation the impending visit of their archbishop. Every effort was taken to please their esteemed visitor – including l