Six hundred years before Britain voted for independence from Europe, the Sceptered Isle came the closest it ever has to attaching all of France to its realm. The historian Dan Jones’s “Henry V” argues ...
I’m a fan of England’s King Henry V. Although not a Shakespeare enthusiast, I’ve always been captivated by the film version with Kenneth Branagh in the lead — especially the famous speech: “We few, we ...
In 1403, a rebellion broke out in England that would culminate in one of the bloodiest battles to ever take place on English ...
In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.
Henry VI became King of England at barely eight months of age and also held the French throne. He is remembered as one of the ...
Given the rioting in England this week, it would seem an incongruous moment for the Classical Theatre of Harlem to stage Henry V, whose famed St. Crispin’s Day speech—bookended by warring ...
King Charles and Pope Leo have become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service in at least ...