Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in 1509 was crowned with Henry as his (first) queen. 6 wives. Father of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
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King Henry VIII
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49 Bankside
Here lived Sir Christopher Wren during the building of St Pauls Cathedral. He...
Black Friar pub
The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lo...
Brooke House
Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both give De Vere's...
Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Forest Hill mural
{Panel 1:} A Brief Local History In medieval times this area was known as The...
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Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)
The Young Pretender. Bonnie Prince Charlie. Born Rome of a rich Polish mother. Grandson of King James II who, being Catholic, was driven out of Britain, thus setting the scene for the Jacobite upr...
2 memorials
Peter the Great
Born in Moscow as Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov. He was created joint czar with his mentally disabled half-brother Ivan V, in 1682. In 1697 he set off for a tour of Europe, in which he amassed knowledg...
3 memorials
King William IV, Duke of Clarence
The Duke of Clarence became King William IV (The Sailor King), reigning 1830 to 1837. Had a long live-in affair with the actress Mrs Jordan which produced 10 children, all given the surname FitzCla...
8 memorials
Victoria, Duchess of Kent
Born Coberg. Mother of Queen Victoria. Her first marriage to Prince of Leiningen produced two children. Widowed, she married again in 1818 to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent at Coburg, (and again at Ke...
1 memorial
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on Monday 20 June 1887. In George Gissing's 1894 novel 'In the Year of Jubilee' characters discuss whether to participate...
11 memorials
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