Queen Elizabeth’s coffin is on its final journey to Windsor Castle being driven in the State hearse up the Long Walk. Windsor is a place that she called home and where she and the Duke of Edinburgh spent lockdowns during the pandemic and at St. George’s Chapel for the funeral of her husband just…
Seven years of bloody and violent civil fighting, beginning in 1642 took place before the arrest of Charles 1 appeared in court to be told he was sentenced to death as a “Tyrant and Traitor’. He laughed at this and during the reading of the charge, the head of his cane broke off and fell to the floor.…
World leaders including US President Joe Biden and hundred of Presidents of foreign countries were among the guests who witnessed the Abbey Service remember Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth’s final farewell. Earlier, King Charles III led the procession behind his mother’s coffin from Westminster Hall to Abbey. The Queen’s coffin was conveyed in the first…
Professor Keith Still from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years, helped to plan the five-mile length queue of people shuffling slowly along for between nine and 25 hours, sometimes overnight, patiently waiting to pay respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall. He…
The Queen’s eight grandchildren, for the first time in history, have taken part in a vigil, standing beside her coffin in Westminster Hall, as their parents performed a vigil twice in the last week. Prince William and Harry wore military attire, and wearing black were Princes Beatrice and Eugenie, Zara Tindall and Peter Philips, and Lady…
Act of Oblivion is a spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search of two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail- an epic journey into the wilds of seventeenth-century New England. 1660 England, General Edward Whalley, and his…
Jamie Flore Higgins, one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs, spurred on by the obligation to her working-class immigrant family, rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks, affairs flouted in the office, rampant drug abuse, and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture…
After the end of the cold war, western democracies collided with the rise of a generation of autocrats and populists. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death as entire societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt…
Charles III and his siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward stood vigil earlier at Westminster Hall. The wait time to see the Queen lying in state has gone down again to 19.5 hours, from 24 hours, according to the government’s live queue tracker. Stewards briefly stopped people from joining the queue due to…
Over half a million people are expected to be filing past the Queen’s coffin after it was brought in a procession to Westminster Hall, followed by the King and his sons Princes William and Harry who walked behind Queen Elizabeth’s coffin as Her Majesty makes her way to Westminster Hall, leaving Buckingham Palace for the…