The Kings and Queens of England

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Angelina Ballerina and Princess Sophie are to be bridesmaids at the Mouseland Royal Wedding, but when the big day arrives they are so busy dancing and exploring that they get stuck in the old tower in the Palace Gardens! Definitely not a squifflerotter or a grinksludger, the Queen of England prefers bagpipes to whizzpopping and recognises the BFG as a clever fellow who might not be very well educated but is nobody's fool! Perhaps his most ridiculous moment came in 1205 when, having lost most of his French lands, he organised a massive expedition to try to get them back which, at the 11th hour, the entire English aristocracy refused to join. Packed full of recipes and tips for organising your own street party, George and Flora’s Big Party is all about cooking and community.

Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (Mammoth Books) The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (Mammoth Books)

King Alfred, the first king to lay claim to ruling the English as a people and the only English king to have been issued with the epithet “Great”, nevertheless spent a large part of his early reign hiding from the Vikings in a bog – by which I mean a marsh.Henry II’s infidelities so enraged his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, that she incited their sons into civil war just to wind him up. If there is a specific area of learning your child needs support with, our packs offer information, advice and plenty of engaging practical activities. Nobody’s quite sure of the number and it’s not clear whether that fact has been lost in the intervening centuries or whether the king himself didn’t know. Packed with portraits and family trees, intriguing facts, photographs and illustrations and recommended places to visit. The medieval monarchy is a succession of brutes and fools, with the occasional foolish brute and one or two ruthlessly efficient tyrants.

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Had he, as an ambitious minor prince, not suffered a sudden, violent bout of food poisoning while on board a ship in Barfleur harbour in 1120, he wouldn’t have disembarked before it headed into the Channel and sank. This eye-catching book from provides insight into the life of the woman who is our longest-reigning monarch in the now-classic Richard Brassey style with fun facts, hilarious anecdotes and fascinating info! A royal-wedding-themed Rainbow Magic book, part of the best-selling series for girls aged 5 to 7 (since publication in 2003 the Rainbow Magic books have sold over 29 million copies worldwide). I do wish you were around then, as your content is fantastic and my little boy looks forward to your daily worksheets.

It’s not only teaching my little one things, it’s showing me how things should’ve been done when I was younger. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists. In the same way, a victory such as Agincourt fatally skewed English expectations of military success with repeatedly bleak consequences. The public rift between William and Harry (with the latter emigrating alongside his wife amid talk of vindictive and racist treatment by family and courtiers, and then selling a tell-all book about it), the festering wound of Prince Andrew’s reputation and the king’s bad-temperedness about his pen all seem to show that royal dignity and probity have disappeared.

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David Williamson's text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them. Poppy is so excited when the annual dress-up parade takes on a royal theme, and can’t wait to help out. Four years later, when Harold himself was dead, the new king, his half-brother Harthacnut, took revenge on Alfred’s behalf: he had Harold’s body dug up, beheaded and then chucked in a ditch. You or I could have told them it was impossible – against the laws of physics – but, drunk on notions of regal greatness and their divine right, they bought into the notion again and again.

An incandescent John with, one imagines, red face and crown askew, boarded the ship anyway and sailed out into the Channel to wait for them.

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Thank you for providing a much-needed service for parents and one which really represented good value for money. I’m not on social media but just wanted to reach out and say I have been recommending you to everyone I know, with kids of course! Dazzling victories were won, albeit at horrendous human cost, and the illusion was fleetingly conjured up that somehow the python that was England could swallow the Renault 5 that was France. I particularly loved your handwriting sections and the ‘Learning Journey’ links that you have created. Can Rainbow Magic heroines Kirsty and Rachel find the crown so the royal couple can live happily ever after?The subsequent dynastic struggles of the Angevins and Plantagenets heralded the great age of English kingship under the Tudors and Stuarts, who united the crowns of Scotland and England, before the Hanoverians combined personal rule with parliamentary government, ushering in the modern age and the royalty of today. I'm finding your site an absolutely fantastic resource alongside the stuff being sent from my son's school. Worryingly the country was better governed during that year than at any other time during the reign. This popular history of the kings and queens of England is the only book of its kind to address the colourful story of the English monarchy from the Celtic chieftains to the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. It’s a busy year for the Queen – and one little girl can’t help wondering what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear on her engagements!