Why was an additional church needed in such a position? To answer that question we have to recall that Westminster Abbey was originally a Benedictine Abbey. In 1065 Edward the Confessor gave orders ...

‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.

London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...

Charles I was crowned in Westminster ... Abbey. So the body was taken for burial to St George's chapel at Windsor on 8th February 1649. He is buried in the same burial vault in the quire as Henry VIII ...

Maria was a parishioner of St. Edward the Confessor Church of Westminster. She was always on the move, going on her five-mile daily walk and doing work as a seamstress. Maria’s love for cooking ...

When Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor died on January 5 ... the first English king to hold their coronation in Westminster Abbey. However, King Harold II would ultimately reign for less than a ...

Westminster Abbey now hopes to finally lay the mystery to rest by rescanning the effigy head, which is the last surviving element of the effigy, using the latest, high-tech 3D scans. It was last ...

We’re speaking of America’s most iconic dog show. The 149th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show returned to Madison Square Garden for the first time in five years and one dog stood above ...

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh ...

best in show. Boujee, a golden retriever competing at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this week, won four best in show awards at other competitions in 2024. The Great Read They are among the ...

By The Styles Desk Only one dog gets to leave the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show with a silver bowl and a comically large purple-and-yellow ribbon, and it seemed pretty clear as the judging ...