Posts tagged with 'monarchy'

Charles II’s coronation was held at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661. The diarist Samuel Pepys was present and wrote about it. Alice Thornton also wrote about the coronation in two of her books, but...

One of the benefits of working with Alice Thornton’s original manuscripts is that we got to see that where later editors had written ‘heart’, Thornton herself had sometimes used the sign (or emoji) ♡....

We are nearing the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649. For Alice Thornton, looking back on this c.1669 when writing Book 1: The First Book of My Life, Charl...

Today, October 25 2022, there is a partial eclipse of the sun. However, a much fuller solar eclipse took place on Monday 29 March 1652, which cast complete darkness over Scotland and much of northern ...

The last time a King Charles was proclaimed in London was in 1660. [1] When Charles III acceded to the throne last week, there was some initial speculation about whether he might choose to use one of ...