If you’ve heard enough about King Henry VIII’s many wives or the turbulent relationship between Princess Diana and King Charles III, consider these 10 lesser known royal love stories.
Recently a group of us went into our manuscripts store to have a look at some medieval genealogical rolls. We were examining Royal MS 14 B V, an English roll from the last part of the 13th century that contains quite a lot of marginalia, when one of our post-medieval.
Doctors from the 21 Engineer Regiment don t believe the Black Prince died of dysentery in 1376 as his symptoms would not have allowed him to join a military campaign four years prior.
Edward the Black Prince was a legendary warrior yet his premature death meant he never fulfilled his destiny to become king. What could have finished off this English hero?