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    the Duchess of Burgundy who had previously also supported Simnel and were eager to see Henry replaced on the throne. When the Irish believed Perkin to the the Earl of Warwick Perkin denied it, claimed though to be Richard, Duke of York and son of Edward IV. This would have given him…

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    Keen author of The Hundred Years of War began in 1328 CE due to the death of the French king Charles IV, who had no male heir. However, he had a sister, Isabella, whose son was Edward the third and was the King of England. Despite this, the throne was passed down to the King’s nephew in France, Philip Valois. King Edward the third sent a note to Philip renouncing his title to the French monarch creating a dispute over the throne; this was one of the main causes for the start of the Hundred…

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    In the article, A Star is Made, Anders Ericsson, a 58-years old psychotherapy professor at Florida State University, tried to answer the question “When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”. To answer this question, he conducted an experiment, about memory training. This experiment involved a person hearing a series of number and then repeating it. After a few trials, he concludes that memory itself is not genetically determined, but instead though a…

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    who God has anointed King and their successors. However, Richard is so corrupt and driven by his malicious ambition that he has interefered in what God chose. As King Edward was old, he would have died naturally in the near future and Clarence would be the one to take the throne until the young Princes were old enough to succeed Edward which Elizabethans would have believed that this is the way that God wanted it to be. However, Richard interefered in this and this is shown when Richard III has…

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    Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926 in London, United Kingdom. She was born to George VI, which later died in 1952. Elizabeth then immediately ascended the throne in 1952, which starts her reign of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She married the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, and had Prince Charles, heir to the throne, in 1948. She is known for her longest serving monarchy in the history of Great Britain and for her service in World War II. Elizabeth has been the…

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    Queen Victoria

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    Royalty, it is a creation of sovereignty which is perceived as an influential terror. Sovereignty is what Britain had created to destroy their chaos, the ruler is chosen by blood. Alexandrina Victoria was one of those blood royals and has proven that bloodline power has no specific control. The British monarchy must be preserved along with the antique way of living. Standing alone on her own, she brought an exclusive way of leadership to the table when she began as queen. She gave persuasive…

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    After the death of his father, King George V, King Edward the VIII rules for less than a year, from January to December 1936 before abdicating his throne for his forbidden lover. On December 11, 1936, the King gives a radio broadcast, announcing his decision to abdicate his throne in order to avoid leading England into a constitutional crisis and leaves his brother the soon-to-be King George VI in his place. King Edward wishes to marry a two time divorcee, Wallis Simpson, and in doing so will…

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    Heritage Film Analysis

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    Heritage films refer to a period of films, initially European, that emerged in the 1980’s and 90’s. Though there is a long list of films that are classified as ‘heritage films’, this type of motion picture is not defined as a declared genre, but rather a list of characteristics declared by the movie industry that classify these films. This paper discusses the characteristics that define a ‘heritage film’, how Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech represents the characteristics of a ‘heritage film’…

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    FREDERICO ALBERRICI Alberrici an Italian-American, is identified as a footman called Frederick, employed by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals. Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged…

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    Would anyone ever think it was possible for such a well known author to be a fraud or in reality, be a completely different person? Christopher Marlowe is the true author of William Shakespeare’s plays and poems due to the fact that there is little evidence on the man from Stratford, Marlowe had a reason to fake his death, and the similarities of their work are uncanny. Considering all of the evidence presented, it seems to be highly unlikely that Shakespeare was capable of writing so many…

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