Royal Mail unveils selection of stamps featuring the flashiest armour ever owned by Britain’s best-known monarchs
THE ROYAL Mail unveils a selection of stamps fit for a King – showing off the flashiest armour ever owned by Britain’s ...
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King Henry VIII's Mound protected as scheduled monument
King Henry VIII's Mound, in Richmond Park, south-west London, is believed to have been an ancient funerary monument dating from the Bronze Age. It was later used to oversee royal hunts and is now ...
Royal Armouries stamp collection unveiled
Royal Mail has unveiled 12 stamps being issued to celebrate the UK's national museum of arms and armour. The museum ...
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Henry VIII
became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII ...
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Royal Mail stamps highlight the role of arms and armour in 'shaping our world'
The Royal Mail has unveiled a set of twelve new stamps to honour the Royal Armouries, featuring eight stamps that showcase armour worn by monarchs like Henry VIII and Charles I from 1520 to 1686.
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Henry VIII
The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...