In 1969, two years after male homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales, but 11 years before the same advance was ...

The title Prince of Wales was handed to Edward's eldest son, Prince Edward (later Edward II) – a practise that continues to this day. Edward plots against Scotland In 1287 Alexander III ...

Edward was born at Caernarvon in Wales on 25th April 1284, a son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile. He renewed his father's campaign against the Scots but was defeated at Bannockburn in 1314 by ...

Edward was the first Prince of Wales to adopt the motto Ich Dien and use the crest of three ostrich feathers. He died at Westminster Palace on 8th June 1376 before his father. His son succeeded as ...

Wales had troubled the Plantagenet kings for ... 1307.Plantagenet determination to subdue Scotland was undiminished. But Edward II’s defeat by Robert Bruce at Bannockburn seven years later ...

Both of the RSC’s major new productions begin with funereal solemnity: Hamlet (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) starts with a burial at sea; Edward II (in the Swan Theatre) opens with the dead ...

Now, though, the 51-year-old has returned to the stage as an actor, starring as the title character in Edward II, Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance drama about the 14th-century monarch ...

Theatre fans rejoice, as the Royal Shakespeare Company is delighting us with a special production of the historic gay story Edward II running this spring. The play tells the often overlooked tale of ...

The title Prince of Wales was handed to Edward's eldest son, Prince Edward (later Edward II) – a practise that continues to this day. Edward plots against Scotland In 1287 Alexander III ...