Joanne Major

A sentry found Cromwell's head and kept it. At his death, the sentry bequeathed it (what an inheritance!) to his wife and daughter.

Newspapers, plays and paintings portrayed the romance of elopement — but what was the reality?

With Wimbledon in full swing, thoughts – naturally – turn towards that perennial British summer favourite, fresh strawberries and cream.

Despite Queen Victoria writing that it had been a ‘very fatiguing day, in the Garden at Buckingham Palace, where I used to sit so often in former happy days,’ her journal suggests that she spent little time outside.