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Charles’ Coronation has given us Brits another chance to
The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind
SORRY, did I wake you up?” Linda asked. Her bleary-eyed and pyjama-clad flatmate, Pat, had stumbled into their tiny kitchen one summer morning. “It’s five o’clock in the morning, Linda,” Pat moaned, s
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I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w
Charles II visited Norfolk in September 1671, accompanied by other members of the royal family and a large retinue of gentlemen and servants. Royal visits were a great rarity in the 17th century, as w
When Pippa Middleton reportedly threw a blow-out 50th for husband James Matthews, with sister Kate by her side, it wasn’t the understated family gathering neighbours expected, with locals branding it ‘racy and wild!’
