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4 days ago · Next in order is the Chapel of St. Nicholas, in the centre of which is an altar-tomb surmounted with the effigies of Sir George Villiers, who died in 1605, and of his lady, Mary Beaumont, created in 1618 Countess of Buckingham. Their son was advanced by James I. to the dukedom of Buckingham.
4 days ago · For three hundred years the Grosvenor family has owned large estates in what are now some of the most valuable parts of Westminster. These estates were acquired in 1677 through the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor with Mary Davies, the infant daughter and heiress of a scrivener in the City of London.
5 days ago · At the State Opening of Parliament, The Queen's Bargemaster and Watermen travel on the carriages guarding the regalia when it is conveyed from Buckingham Palace to Westminster and back as a reminder of the days when it was brought by boat from the Tower of London.
5 days ago · Buckingham was assassinated on 23rd August, 1628, and the duchess seems soon after to have let the house to Lord Weston, the lord treasurer, who was certainly in occupation of the premises in May, 1630, and the following note written a few days after his death: "The Dutchess of Buckingham was married about a Week since to the Lord Dunluce and are to live at Wallingford-house, whence the ...
2 days ago · In 1648 when the Earls of Holland and Peterborough and the Duke of Buckingham made a last effort in the royal cause they rose at Kingston, and after a march to Reigate retreated there again, when a skirmish took place near Surbiton Common, in which Lord Francis Villiers was killed, and the Cavaliers routed.
6 days ago · From next week, the room where members of the Royal Family gather before heading out on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony is being opened up for the public to visit - but it seems one thing ...
6 days ago · The east wing of Buckingham Palace is opening its doors to the public for the first time. Visitors will be able to see inside the palace’s famous centre room, where the royal family gather before...
