Crown jewels in the spotlight
The Imperial Crown of India, as well as other crown jewels, have been spruced up for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, before they were returned to the Tower of London last month in a...
View ArticleThe Brown Lady, A British Ghost Story
For a Halloween treat this year, I thought I’d tell you the story of The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, one of the most famous ghosts in Great Britain, and one of the few ever to allow anyone to take her...
View ArticleLondon Old & New
Nowhere was it more obvious the contrast between old and new London as when we came out of the Tower Hill underground station and saw the new “Shard” rising up behind the Tower of London. The “Shard”...
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