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Article: Breaking the bank for the royal visit; MIDLANDS millennium Chris Upton recalls Queen Elizabeth I's famous 19-day visit to Kenilworth Castle and Ross Reyburn looks at the castle today.(National)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1999
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What dainty darling's here? Oh God, a peerless pearl!
No wordly wight, no doubt; some sovereign goddess, sure!
Even face, even hand, even eye, even other features all;
Yea, beauty, grace and cheer, yea port and majesty,
Show all some heavenly peer, with virtues all beset.
It was the tradition of the Tudor monarchs to abandon London in the hot and plaguey summer months and to go on "progress" about their realm.
The idea was not only to improve the Sovereign's health; it was also an opportunity to devolve the cost of ...