Married Humphrey, uncle to the child King Henry VI. Eleanor was implicated in a plot of treasonable necromancy against the king. Her supposed co-conspirators were executed and she was sentenced to three days' public penance walking barefoot through the streets of London, followed by enforced divorce and life imprisonment. Her penance is enacted in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2. The ODNB says the penance was "to walk barefoot to three London churches on successive market days in November" - not quite what the CI doors says. And on the doors it seems to be her back giving her gyp, not her feet.
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Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
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CI - 2 - Eleanor
We can't find proof that her route was as specified: from Queen Hithe (at the...
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The King's Road
It derives its name from the fact that It was King Charles II’s private road to Kew and wasn’t opened to the general public until 1830. Mary Quant opened her shop ‘Bazaar’ here in 1955. Along with ...
1 memorial
12 memorials
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, K.C.
Sixth son of King George III, created Duke of Sussex on 24 November 1801 but he had no legitimate issue so the title became extinct on his death. 1840 he gave Queen Victoria in marriage to Prince A...
5 memorials
Princess Patricia of Connaught
Daughter of Prince Arthur from whom she must have inherited some unveiling skills. Born at Buckingham Palace and named Patricia because it was St Patrick's Day. Brought up as a Princess, a member o...
1 memorial
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence
On his 28th birthday the eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Edward and Alexandra) and so second in line to the throne, fell ill at his home at Sandringham. He died on 14 January 1892 a...
3 memorials
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Captain Frederick Henry Dymock
Died as a result of serving in the Russian War 1854 - 6. 95th Regiment. Glosters gives: "Captain Frederick Henry Dymock - killed - 6th November 1855 Aged 20. Son of Revd. T.F. Dymock. Buried at Ing...
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Terence Donovan
Photographer and director of TV commercials. Born Stepney. Black belt in judo. Aged 60, suffering from depression he hung himself. Miriam Margolyes in 'This Much is True', adds that Donovan also r...
1 memorial
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