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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Queen elizabeth i | History Defined

Elizabeth I refused to go to bed before she died – a stubborn final act that reflected her reign

In March 1603, Elizabeth I refused to go to bed. For days, she sat on cushions in her Richmond Palace chamber, silent and withdrawn, as her courtiers waited for the end. It’s a final moment that can be read not simply as the failing of her body, but as the…

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor accused of ‘physical altercation’ with senior aide of Elizabeth II

The former Duke of York allegedly ‘lashed out’ at Vice-Adml Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt, according to a new book

The Independent UK

Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots

The French screen and stage legend will star in Mary Said What She Said, a one-woman show created by late theatre luminary Robert Wilson, in March

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Mary Queen of Scots’ political scheming revealed in decoded missing letters

Hidden in the French national library, the 57 letters mistakenly labelled as Italian

The Independent UK

Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented … the corridor

I always thought genealogy was as dull as looking at other people’s holiday snaps – until I found out about a 16th-century architect who transformed the stately homes of his era

The Guardian - UK

Queen Elizabeth wanted to 'contact late father's spirit at seance'

The late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip once attended a seance, witht he monarch hoping to contact the spirit of her late father, it has been claimed.

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360-year-old Greenwich Park sweet chestnut on Tree of the Year shortlist

This year’s nominees are based in urban locations across the nation

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Corgis, Sex Pistols and the royal bedtime tipple – take the platinum jubilee quiz

You’ve probably had a lifetime’s exposure to royal trivia – but how much can you remember?

The Guardian - UK

‘More stunts, Maverick!’ Even Tom Cruise couldn’t save the Queen’s hellish jubilee horsefest

We were promised A-listers doing astounding things. But the only way this TV jubilee special could have been saved from terminal tedium was if the Top Gun star had abseiled from a helicopter

The Guardian - UK

Queen receives standing ovation at Platinum Jubilee show as the nation salutes her 70 years of service

Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Dame Helen Mirren were among those honouring the monarch

The Independent UK

Rare Queen Elizabeth I Coin Auctioned For $770,000 In Germany

Owned by a Jewish dealer whose collection was stolen by the Nazis, the coin was returned to his son after his death in Auschwitz.

Zenger

Queen Elizabeth II has COVID-19, but she's not the first monarch caught up in a pandemic

The Queen's COVID-19 diagnosis adds another chapter to the long history of deadly diseases breaching the palace walls, including bubonic plague, smallpox and influenza.

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