Arriving in Leith, near Edinburgh on 19th August 1561 the 18-year-old Mary looked south to England, claiming legitimacy to the crown as the great ... Elizabeth may have been playing a game of poker, ...

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John J. Miller is joined by Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago to discuss Plato’s ‘Gorgias.’ National Review’s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J ...

Harry Potter author J K Rowling is now worth more than the Queen, according to The Sunday ... with 372,000 hardback copies being taken from the shelves in bookshops across Britain.