Category: History UK

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

I am D. Catherine of Braganza

Wondering who introduce the custom of drinking “the tea at 5”? It was D. Catharine of Braganza (D. Catarina de Bragança), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1662 to 1685, as the wife of King Charles II. Read more because D. Catharine did not only introduce the tea at 5 but as well a…
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“Remember remember the fifth of November…”

Guy Fawkes Day, which is also called Bonfire Night. Do you know that Guy Fawkes was a real person? Better speaking, Fawkes was the major conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes and his fellows managed to get 36 barrels of gunpowder into a cellar of the House of Lords. Some Catholics, most famously Guy Fawkes, plotted to blow…
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