The Kings and Queens of England

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Angelina Ballerina and Princess Sophie are to be bridesmaids at the Mouseland Royal Wedding, but when the big day arrives they are so busy dancing and exploring that they get stuck in the old tower in the Palace Gardens! Can Rainbow Magic heroines Kirsty and Rachel find the crown so the royal couple can live happily ever after? I particularly loved your handwriting sections and the ‘Learning Journey’ links that you have created. Had he, as an ambitious minor prince, not suffered a sudden, violent bout of food poisoning while on board a ship in Barfleur harbour in 1120, he wouldn’t have disembarked before it headed into the Channel and sank. A beautiful, all-colour illustrated version of a modern classic in which Her Majesty helps Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant save the day.

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Definitely not a squifflerotter or a grinksludger, the Queen of England prefers bagpipes to whizzpopping and recognises the BFG as a clever fellow who might not be very well educated but is nobody's fool! When George and Flora realise that their neighbours don’t know each other, they take matters into their own hands and organise a spectacular street party.But the real nightmare was when they seemed briefly to succeed, as happened under Edward III and Henry V.

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Make sure the whole family feels part of royal festivities and include some celebratory reading in your schedule. Written by teachers and experts and exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, learning packs (each 50+ pages long) are fun as well as practice-packed.Nobody’s quite sure of the number and it’s not clear whether that fact has been lost in the intervening centuries or whether the king himself didn’t know.

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Poppy is so excited when the annual dress-up parade takes on a royal theme, and can’t wait to help out. This eye-catching book from provides insight into the life of the woman who is our longest-reigning monarch in the now-classic Richard Brassey style with fun facts, hilarious anecdotes and fascinating info! The psychological impact of this was particularly tough on Henry VI and, at the news of the collapse of England’s position in France, he too collapsed and was reduced to an inert blob, needing to be fed and washed and moved about for over a year.

The intensity of intra-familial hatred in many periods of royal history makes the William and Harry rift look like a tersely raised eyebrow over a Boxing Day game of Trivial Pursuit. Four years later, when Harold himself was dead, the new king, his half-brother Harthacnut, took revenge on Alfred’s behalf: he had Harold’s body dug up, beheaded and then chucked in a ditch.