...related to the English royal house, because Catherine of Lancaster was her great-grandmother.
Catherine received a good education, including not only domestic skills but also lang
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...n this function under [[Edward VI]] and compiled the first two editions of the [[Book of Common Prayer]] (1549, 1552). Under [[Mary I]], Cranmer was charg
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...udent of mathematics, music and anatomy, but - not unusual for a member of the upper classes - never took a degree (Baines 2002).
...htmare he had Walpole wrote what is often deemed the first Gothic novel, ''The Castle of Otranto'', in 1764.
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...rt of Henry VIII. He was very ambitious for his children and interested in the education of his two daughters. He wanted them to speak fluent French, to l
...ther's assistance, found a position at the English court as one of Queen [[Catherine of Aragon]]'s ladies-in-waiting.
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...olis at a time when a great part of the population had become literate and the press was a force for social change.
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...ng [[Henry IV]] and his wife [[Mary Bohun]] and died on 31 August 1422. At the age of 25, he succeeded his father as King of England.
...Owen ap Glendower, and two years later he commanded his father's forces at the Battle of Shrewsbury in which he was wounded.
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...was renamed as the Palace of Placentia on Margaret of Anjou’s initiative, the wife of King [[Henry VI]].
...his marriage with [[Anne Boleyn]] was also born at Placentia in 1533. Here the King married [[Anne of Cleves]] in 1540.
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...ehold of [[Elizabeth of York]] and later became part of the entourage of [[Catherine of Aragon]].
...ge Boleyn]] were the only three to survive childhood. In addition to them, the couple is said to have had at least two deceased children - Thomas and Henr
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...January 1788-19 April 1824. English writer associated with Romanticism and the Byronic hero.
...but left her right away again and traveled back to France where he died on the 2nd of August 1791 ([http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/BYRON11.HTML]).
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...[[Prince William|Prince William, Duke of Cambridge]] and [[Kate Middleton|Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge]]. He is third in line of succession, after [[Prince
...Prince Harry|Harry, Prince of Wales]]. His paternal great-grandparents are the [[Elizabeth II|Queen, Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip|Prince Philip, Duk
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Born around 1485 in Putney, Middlesex, died 28 July 1540 in the [[Tower of London]]. [[File:Thomas_Cromwell.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Thomas Cr
Not much is known about his early life (starting with the exact year of his birth), but Cromwell - just like his mentor [[Thomas Wols
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Louise was born in France, the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Sieur de Kéroualle. Because of this, sh
...ensified the established future of the Anglo-French alliance (Melo 63). At the French court, she was named “La Belle Bretonne” (Fraser 311). <br>
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...of the points they could agree on, however, was that Henry was to marry [[Catherine of Valois]], Charles’s daughter.
...negotiations, but the Dauphin thwarted their plans. There is no proof that the incidents actually happened, though.
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...th bank of the Thames in central London and is the oldest building used by the government.
...100 and in this time was an extraordinary and impressive building. However the Tower was not intended as a primary royal residence but as a fortress/stron
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...rejection of religion. You have to deal with it because it’s the centre of the culture” (quoted in Smale 31).
...ren’s books: ''[[Haroun and the Sea of Stories]]'' (1990) and ''[[Luka and the Fire of Life]]'' (2010).
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...ich made Dickens a good choice for a reporter of parliamentary debates for the ''Morning Chronicle''.
...ditor of the ''Evening Chronicle''. He made John Forster's acquaintance in the same year. Forster became his literary adviser and future biographer.
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...ally in a monarch or dictator. The essence of an absolutist system is that the ruling power is not subject to regularised challenge or check by any other
...a strong central power (usually the monarch), an administration focused on the monarch, and a strong standing army.
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Novel written by [[Jane Austen]] and published in 1813, said to be “the one most widely read and most often reread” (Bush 91) of Austen´s novels.
...each other, and although there´s some spark between them, they just think the worst of each other.
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1758-1805. British admiral and one of the British heroes in the Wars against Napoleon.
...ted Vice Admiral of the Blue on 1 January 1801, the fourth highest rank of the Navy.
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...660 to reclaim his throne. With his return, the monarchy was restored, and the Restoration period began.
...the protection of the rights to land and ownership, and the toleration of the Anglican church policy.
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