When Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wed Alexander Ramsay in London in 1919, she more than ...

The English writer Geoffrey Chaucer who first associated Valentine's Day with love, in a passage in the 1382 poem "Parlement ...

Pope Gelasius declared Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD. It was not until much later, however, that the day became ...

Valentine's Day has long been considered a time to celebrate romance and love with someone special. However, the full history ...

Chaucer's "Parlement of Foules" — "Parliament of Fowls" — in 1382 celebrated the engagement of the 15-year-old King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia via a poem, in which he wrote ...

Powderham sits alongside the River Exe estuary just south of the county’s ancient capital of Exeter. It has long been both at the geographic and cultural heart of the county and has belonged to just ...