When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...
Scotland is an old hand at state visit pageantry – and well versed in heckling the great and the good, writes Royal commentator Alastair Bruce ...
BC: Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators in Rome.. 270AD: St Nicholas, ...
In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...
As valet to Michael Romanov, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, Johnson had known he faced execution as the 300-year-old dynasty was swept aside in 1917. Michael pleaded with his faithful ...
Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit ... because it has the capacity to ask us what being English means. Nicholas Hytner’s production, running at the Bridge Theatre with Bridgerton star ...