There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...

Seward, who has written on the Tudors and the Hundred Years’ War, gives a whirlwind overview of the Plantagenet kings, from Henry II through Richard III (1154–1485). The book focuses on men, battles, ...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." This quote - often attributed to Gandhi but more likely to have come from a 1914 report to the Amalgamated Clothing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Late in 1306 King Edward I of England, old Longshanks, was heading for Scotland. He wanted one last shot at ...

We are all determined to learn lessons from the pandemic. For many of us, it has brought the realisation that we take too much for granted. In 2020, as we hunkered down for the first lockdown, the ...

"I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares", declares the Earl of Warwick in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3. And he does indeed. The Kingmaker, as he is famously dubbed, gets the knack of this ...

A French city which produced 14 English kings is demanding the Crown Jewels as compensation from the Queen for the murder of its last pretender to the throne. Angers, which is in the Loire Valley west ...

Save articles for future reference. Mr Berry has a long association with Plantagenet. “I’ve been with Plantagenet for 16 years and I’ve watched it grow from a 150 tonnes to 2,500 tonnes and gone from ...

Riddle of the bones - where would Richard have chosen for his final rest? "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." This quote - often attributed to Gandhi ...