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Meghan Markle has been publicly married twice: to film producer Trevor Engelson (married 2011 — separated/divorced early 2010s) and to Prince Harry, whom she wed on May 19, 2018 and remains married to...
The Geneva Bible (first published 1560) was the dominant English Protestant household Bible before the Authorized King James Version (published 1611); scholars estimate roughly 15–20% of the KJV’s wor...
Meghan Markle has been publicly married twice: first to film producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013, and then to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, with a widely reported wedding on 19 May 2018 (source...
Christian churches across denominations have both through theological justification, institutional policies, and material entanglements with slavery and colonialism, and in recent years many instituti...
Queen Elizabeth II was publicly associated with a Welsh cultural ceremony in 1946—she was made an Honorary Ovate (a bardic rank) of the Gorsedd of the Bards at the National Eisteddfod—an act documente...
Tommy Robinson (born Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is presented across major outlets as a far‑right, anti‑migration activist who founded the English Defence League and has repeatedly centred his politics on ...
The most reliable, recent baseline for the Muslim population in England comes from the 2021 census and associated analyses: . Contemporary 2025 references point to growth since 2011 and continuing dem...
The Geneva Bible’s marginalia — Calvinist, Puritan commentary printed alongside the text — included annotations that praised civil disobedience and questioned episcopal and royal authority, which King...
King James objected most sharply to Geneva’s marginal annotations that commended civil disobedience and questioned monarchical and episcopal authority—notably notes on Exodus 1 and II Chronicles 15—th...
The available reporting shows the Geneva Bible was translated directly from Hebrew and Greek sources available mid‑16th century—building on Tyndale, Coverdale and the Bomberg Masoretic edition—and inc...
The Church of England remains an established church with formal roles in state and public life — the monarch is its Supreme Governor, the government appoints many clergy posts, and 26 bishops sit in t...
Tommy Robinson is consistently described in reporting and profiles as an anti-immigration figure whose activism targets migrants broadly and, in practice, focuses heavily on Muslims and asylum seekers...
The Puritans who settled New England and the English settlers who founded Jamestown left for North America for different chief reasons: Puritans fled religious persecution and sought to build communit...
The Geneva Bible and the King James Version (KJV) shared a common goal—making Scripture available in English—but their chief differences were editorial and institutional as much as linguistic: the Gen...
Since Martin Luther’s 16th-century challenge to the medieval corpus, the Protestant canon has narrowed in practice to the 66-book Bible familiar to most Protestants today, but that narrowing was neith...
Meghan Markle has been legally married twice: first to Trevor Engelson and currently to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; a private exchange of vows ahead of her royal wedding was explicitly not a legally...
King James I commissioned the 1611 Authorized Version in part to undercut the politically charged Geneva Bible; the Geneva’s Calvinist, anti-episcopal annotations were read as "subversive of royal aut...
The Geneva Bible was a Reformation-era, Protestant, lay-focused translation notable for clear, direct English and extensive marginal notes that guided readers toward Reformed/Puritan interpretations ....
The Geneva Bible and the King James Version (KJV) are closely related but not identical: historians and comparative studies show the Geneva supplied a large share of wording adopted into the KJV (abou...
England and Wales have seen the steepest falls in people identifying as Christian: in 2021 England and Wales recorded 46.2% identifying as Christian (down 13.1 percentage points since 2011) and Wales ...