David Starkey
David Starkey
David Robert Starkey CBE FSA RHistSis a British constitutional historian and a radio and television presenter...
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It has gone from a smooth operation to a fuss and now a farce.
kings powerful history
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.
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In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before, .. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.
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I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
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We have musicians coming from Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans to play in the band.