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History of Westminster Abbey
In the 1040s King Edward (later St Edward the Confessor) established his royal palace by the banks of ... His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI became the first Pope to visit the Abbey. The Cosmatesque ...
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Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
2021 44COM 7B.161 - Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (C 426bis) 2019 43COM 7B.94 - Palace of ...
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Palace of Westminster
Westminster's drinking culture is in the spotlight after a bar was closed over an alleged spiking incident. Commons leader Lucy Powell says she is open to debate about bars in Parliament but they ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
On the death of John's first wife Blanche Chaucer wrote his poem The Book of the Duchess. Gaunt's third wife Katherine was said to have been a sister of the poet's wife. Chaucer held the post of Clerk ...
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Fire outbreaks in Palace of Westminster spark ‘Notre Dame inferno’ warning
Fire has broken out 45 times in the Palace of Westminster over the last decade, latest figures show, sparking warnings of a “Notre Dame inferno incubating” on the crumbling estate. Labour ...
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UK’s crumbling parliament even harder to fix than Notre Dame, MPs told
MPs are expected to vote at the end of the year on plans to refurbish the Palace of Westminster ... major works are carried out were first approved in the wake of Paris’s 2019 Notre Dame fire, which ...