The Kings and Queens of England

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In the same way, a victory such as Agincourt fatally skewed English expectations of military success with repeatedly bleak consequences.

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Anyway, I know you’re really busy, what with being Queen… but… Please can you send my dad home from the war? Packed with portraits and family trees, intriguing facts, photographs and illustrations and recommended places to visit. Perhaps his most ridiculous moment came in 1205 when, having lost most of his French lands, he organised a massive expedition to try to get them back which, at the 11th hour, the entire English aristocracy refused to join.Poppy is so excited when the annual dress-up parade takes on a royal theme, and can’t wait to help out. To be portrayed to the country and the world as so important and yet be able to walk into every room without seeming arrogant, despite the presence of hundreds of people starting to bow and scrape, is a unique gift. You or I could have told them it was impossible – against the laws of physics – but, drunk on notions of regal greatness and their divine right, they bought into the notion again and again. The subsequent dynastic struggles of the Angevins and Plantagenets heralded the great age of English kingship under the Tudors and Stuarts, who united the crowns of Scotland and England, before the Hanoverians combined personal rule with parliamentary government, ushering in the modern age and the royalty of today.

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I'm finding your site an absolutely fantastic resource alongside the stuff being sent from my son's school.When George and Flora realise that their neighbours don’t know each other, they take matters into their own hands and organise a spectacular street party.

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Written by teachers and experts and exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, learning packs (each 50+ pages long) are fun as well as practice-packed. Kingship, despite the crown, robes, processions, coaches, trumpets and anthems, has often been an undignified activity – all the more so because it’s supposed to be dignified. He was spectacularly unsuccessful, inheriting England, Ireland and most of France but then losing control of almost all of it within two decades.Angelina Ballerina and Princess Sophie are to be bridesmaids at the Mouseland Royal Wedding, but when the big day arrives they are so busy dancing and exploring that they get stuck in the old tower in the Palace Gardens! A royal-wedding-themed Rainbow Magic book, part of the best-selling series for girls aged 5 to 7 (since publication in 2003 the Rainbow Magic books have sold over 29 million copies worldwide). Four years later, when Harold himself was dead, the new king, his half-brother Harthacnut, took revenge on Alfred’s behalf: he had Harold’s body dug up, beheaded and then chucked in a ditch.