Even when contemplating their own deaths, the two cousins inhabited different worlds. Richard II’s will, written in the ...

at the hands of Henry’s father Henry Bolingbroke, the newly-minted Henry IV. In the interim, the teenager had watched power slip quickly away from Richard, who was 32 years old, but branded by ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

The film begins as KING RICHARD II (Ben Whishaw) tries to resolve a bitter dispute between his cousin, HENRY BOLINGBROKE (Rory Kinnear) and THOMAS MOWBRAY (James Purefoy). BOLINGBROKE has been ...

and Harry Andrews (Henry Bolingbroke). The Third Programme was launched on 29 September 1946 as part of the post war re-organisation of BBC radio. The Third Programme offered classical music ...

With King Henry IV on his deathbed, Hal mistakenly thinks Bolingbroke is dead and leaves his father's bedside with the crown. Bolingbroke awakes and is distressed by this -- he believes Prince Hal ...

Historian Helen Castor turns her attention to Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just months apart and grew up to be rivals. Simon Sebag-Montefiore writes The Eagle and the ...

1812: British forces defeat US forces attempting to invade Canada at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. 1860: The oldest surviving aerial photo is taken from a balloon of Boston, Massachusettes.

The others, including Henry Bolingbroke, soon to be Henry IV, were exiled. Henry received written guarantees from Richard that when John of Gaunt died, Henry would inherit his estates. Gaunt died ...

Her fears are confirmed when SIR HENRY GREEN (Harry Haddenn Paton) charges into the room to announce that BOLINGBROKE has landed on English soil. YORK joins them and, as the country’s Governor ...