He married Philippa, daughter of William III, Count of Holland and Hainault, at York Minster on 24th January 1328. They had seven sons and five daughters (three of whom are buried in the Abbey). Their ...

This is a small, bronze bust of Lenin which I bought in a fleamarket in Moscow in the early 1990s, when everyone in Russia was getting rid of objects that reminded them of communism. I keep it on ...