December 2012
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Each April Her Majesty holds a series of dinners
William the Norman, the foreign invader, was hated and feared by his new Saxon subjects. There were constant threats of insurrectionsand it was primarily to protect himself from his own people that he built a chain of fortresses around London, also guarding trade along the Thames. Another still standing today is the Tower of London, the main defense to the east of the capital. To the west the...
