Category: History

London’s Watergate

We are not done with the Dukes of Buckingham – see MoreFamily History. When you have read that you will know George Villiers is the 1st Duke of Buckingham of the second Creation.

More Family History

When an hereditary peerage dies out it can be re-created. There is no better example than the Dukes of Buckingham with four Creations.

War and War

My brother creates his own headed writing paper using an embossing machine.

Proclamation

The King’s Accession Council in St James’s Palace last year was the first time this once-in-a-reign ceremony has been televised.

King Freddie

The new illegal immigrant Hotel is coming along well and should be ready to receive “guests” arriving in the summer dash across La Manche next year. 

Martial Music

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962.

Wulff

I read a review of this last year and didn’t want to read what sounded like a shabby little shocker about Benjamin Britten seducing a teenage German boy in 1938.