In January 1533 Anne Boleyn announced that she was pregnant and Henry secretly married her. The child was born in September 1533 but Henry was disappointed...
It took until the reign of James II in 1437 until the household threw up a king of any actual guarantee, and he came to an...
George I, born Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, was an unlikely king of Fantastic Britain. He only came into line for the throne with the passing...
Little Dorrit also consists of Dickens’s invention of the Circumlocution Office, the archetype of all bureaucracies, exactly where nothing ever gets performed. By means of this...
As time went on, the predicament started to spiral out of handle as it became clear the queen’s period of mourning would last substantially longer than...
Romeo properly ends the cycle of violence and revenge with his own death he has killed the killer of Tybalt. Juliet takes her personal life upon...
Beyond issues about the political viability of sharing a ruler involving two rather unique territories, interest in the possibilities of altering the succession reflected the notoriously...
