Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. The service always includes one or ...

A new building – to be named The King Charles III Sacristy in honour of HM The King – will be constructed to house state-of-the-art welcome, security and ticketing facilities, allowing the Abbey ...

James Stuart was born at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland on 19th June 1566, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. He was crowned James VI of Scotland in ...

Henry was born at Winchester Castle on 1st October 1207, eldest son of King John and Isabella. He succeeded his father in 1216. His was one of the longest reigns in English history. Demolition of ...

A record was made of the inscription plate on her coffin which read: The body of the most illustrious Lady Elizabeth late wife of the Rt.Hon. Lord John Claypole, Master of the Horse, and second ...

William Strode (or Stroud), politician, was a son of Sir William Strode (died 1637) and his first wife Mary (Southcote). He was baptised on 6th November 1594 at Bovey Tracy in Devon. His brother was ...

Edward was a son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York and his wife Cicely, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He was born at Rouen in France on 28th April 1442. On 4th March 1461 King Henry ...

Edward was born in the Palace of Westminster on 17th June 1239, the eldest child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence, and was baptised in the Abbey. His nickname was "Longshanks", being 6 feet 2 ...

Joan was a daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile and was born at Acre in the spring of 1272. At different times of the day, or in different seasons, the light falling in the Abbey will ...

Edward was born in the precincts of Westminster Abbey on 2nd November 1470, while his father Edward IV was in exile and his mother Elizabeth (Woodville) was taking Sanctuary within the Abbey, under ...

Alexandrina Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (a son of George III) and his wife Princess Victoria. She was born at Kensington Palace on 24th May 1819 and succeeded to the ...

On 24th November 1957 a larger than life size bronze bust to the poet, painter and engraver William Blake was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It is fixed to a pillar and is by the ...