The intrepid Scott Wolter (pictured above with me) has been back on American TV screens once more with his incredible investigative series America Unearthed. I was honoured to be asked to hook up with Scott in Scotland to unearth clues…
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Category: Templar Mystery
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Tony McMahon appears as Henry VIII on The Big Audition on ITV talking about the king’s life and failed marriages
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Tags: actor, appearance, Audition, Big, book, broadcast, guide, Hampton Court, henry, Henry VIII, historian, history, ITV, king, leg, mcmahon, pussy, show, six, talent, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, wives
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
The bodies of many famous Kings of England have disappeared over the centuries and never been found again
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Category: Templar History
Tags: angevin, Anjou, bad, Beauclerc, Blois, burial, buried, Conqueror, crusade, crusades, Earth, Edward, Edward I, emperor, england, Follett, Fontevraud Abbey, france, Gloucester Cathedral, good, grave, heart, henry, Henry II, henry III, history, John, Ken, king, Knightfall, Knights Templar, lionheart, location, longshanks, Matilda, Pillars, pillars of the earth, Plantagenet, Protestant Reformation, queen, Richard I, Rufus, saladin, Stephen, tomb, westminster abbey
Elizabeth II has held the crown of England longer than any other monarch as well being the main character in the Netflix drama – The Crown
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No event shook late twelfth century England as much as the cold-blooded murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in his own cathedral. The knights who plunged their swords in to him as he clutched at his altar believed…
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Category: Templar History
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Wooden figures of the dead were often placed next to tombs – life like images of the deceased
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Tags: burial, death, death mask, Edward the Confessor, effigies, england, funeral, henry, Henry VIII, history, Medieval, middle ages, westminster abbey, William, World War II
The role that the Templar knights played supporting King John during the signing of the Magna Carta
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Aymeric, Cameley, Elmeric, england, henry, ironclad, king, king john, Knights Templar, London, Magna Carta, Medieval, normans, runnymede, Templar