Judges and members of the legal profession gathered in Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st October 2026 for a service to mark the start of the legal year in England and Wales. The annual service, which ...

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The internationally renowned Abbey Choir sings the majority of the daily services in the Abbey, as well as giving concerts, making recordings and broadcasting on radio and television under the ...

You can buy two Adult tickets for the price of one (not valid with pre-booked tickets) with National Rail's Days Out Guide. The 2 for 1 offer also includes an additional free child (17 or under) with ...

Charles was born in Dublin, son of John James Stanford and his wife Mary (Henn), both amateur musicians. He was educated in Dublin and took organ lessons at the cathedral. Later he was a choral ...

Edward, son of Edward II and Isabel, daughter of King Philip of France, was born at Windsor Castle on 13th November 1312 at 5:40am – he was the first English king to have the exact time of his birth ...

Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December 1895 on the Sandringham estate. On the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in December ...

William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange and Princess Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England. He was born at The Hague in Holland on 4th November 1650, a few days after his ...

Poet and writer Thomas Campbell is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He has a life sized white marble statue near Shakespeare's memorial, by sculptor W. Calder Marshall 1848. Campbell is ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

James Wolfe, son of Edward and Henrietta, was born in 1727 at Westerham in Kent. He was educated at a school in Greenwich and commissioned in his father's regiment in 1741. He had a brilliant career ...