What did a Tudor Christmas look like? How did Henry VIII celebrate Christmas, how did his court and his subjects? The great Lucy Worsley takes you back to the 16th century Christmas season in her documentary “Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas”, and she motivated me to take you to this Christmas of a …
Famous Historical Figures
What you need to know about the British line of succession
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8th, 2022, the United Kingdom will crown a new monarch, Charles III, for the first time in seven decades. How does the British line of succession look like after the Queen of the Century? And how did the House of Windsor come to the throne in the …
Sisi, not Sissi: The true Empress Elisabeth
Everyone knows the films of the “Sissi” trilogy with Romy Schneider. Every Christmas at the latest, the lovely face of the young Empress flickers across the television screens. She became the ideal image of a fairytale princess for generations. But was she even close to it? When the historian Brigitte Hamann discovered the diaries of …
Jack the Ripper: Relive London’s Autumn of Terror
Jack the Ripper: To this day unknown, to this day a mystery, to this day a fascination that has no equal. He is regarded as the first serial killer of the modern age and is often the first thing that occurs to many, they hear the word “Whitechapel”, the place of his deeds. Jack the …