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Attributed to William Scrots, Elizabeth I when a Princess, c.1546  Royal Collection Trust / (C) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2013.

High Fashion, Tudor-and-Stuart-Style, Comes To The Queen’s Gallery

These stunning clothes might conceal the body, but they’re revealing in other ways…

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London LOOP: 8. Banstead To Kingston

Discover a lost palace of Henry VIII and follow a Thames tributary from source to river.

The Night Of The Blue Stockings

This Week’s London Cabaret Zingers: 30 March-3 April 2011

This week’s cabaret zingers include burlesque, boylesque, magicians, mock tudor comedy, a battle of the ukuleles and something different for your mum.

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Get Your Classical Kick This Christmas

Haven’t quite started feeling Christmassy yet, or just yearning for the type of Christmas of days gone by? Fear not, an evening at Christ Church in Spitalfields may be just the thing to kick start your festive cheer and set your ears aglow. Veni Emmanuel …

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Celebrating London’s (Hi)Story

Expect a whole lot more of this sort of thing / image author’s own Boris Johnson was at Hampton Court this morning to hobnob with a bunch of Tudors and launch the “Story of London”, a month long celebration of the city’s past, present and …

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Medieval Knights Prove Monty Python Right

For many of us, the idea of Knights will always be intrinsically linked to Monty Python and The Holy Grail. All those moments and dire rhymes in song (“We are Knights of the Round Table and we dance whenever we are able”; Sir Robin the …