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King Charles and Queen Camilla were met by a group of anti-monarchy demonstrators on their visit to Middlesbrough today. The royal couple was greeted by the Republic's large yellow placards reading "Not My King," with protestors chanting the phrase as they arrived. Flags with slogans reading "abolish the monarchy" were also seen being held by the crowds who wished to share their views. Anti-monarchy demonstrators were seen in the Centre Square in the town holding large yellow signs. But the King and Queen were undeterred by the protestors, ignoring them as they walked past to greet the hundreds of well-wishers...

Edward VI (1537-1553), son of Henry VIII, was crowned king of England and Ireland in 1547 at the tender age of nine. Despite his youthfulness, and the brevity of his reign (he died prematurely in 1553 from an illness), Edward the VI was one of the most godly kings in history. He helped the cause of the Protestant Reformation, and enforced biblical civil law. Edward VI's coronation took place on February 28, 1547. During the coronation, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (who would become a martyr during the reign of Bloody Mary) delivered a powerful address—the kind that should be given to...

Germans are America’s big ethnic secret. No people and no culture has contributed more to what the United States is and is becoming. In the nation’s ethnic tangle, no root runs deeper than German America. As a scattered community only fitfully conscious of its own existence, none has more successfully pursued wealth, power and intellectual influence. And as a philosophical force in US politics — a whole political mindset — none has greater potency. Germany as a European state may have lost her way, the German language may struggle to keep its world grip, but the German spirit is alive...