Dr Gabriel Hemery, chief executive of the Sylva Foundation, said: "This reconstruction celebrates the birth of the kingdom of Wessex 1,300 years ago on this very spot. "Not only is the Countess of ...

The book, written by Anthony Paice, looks at how the bishops helped to make Winchester the powerhouse of the kingdom of ...

In 870 AD the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by Alfred's older brother, King Aethelred, and Alfred himself. In 871 AD ...

In 918 A.D., it became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. By the fourth century A.D., Christianity had begun to spread in Britain. But after the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century ...

When Alfred the Great was stranded in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. Instead Wessex expanded until, ...

She and Prince Edward married in 1999 and the couple have two children, Lady Louise and James, Earl of Wessex. Sophie, previously known as the Countess of Wessex, became Duchess of Edinburgh on ...

Sophie Wessex, or the Duchess of Edinburgh, 58, is the wife of Prince Edward. Before joining the Royal Family, she developed a career in public relations and opened her own public relations agency.

The Earl and Countess of Wessex toured the Balmoral Show in the final engagement of a visit to Northern Ireland. The Royal couple met with organisers, exhibitors and participants at the annual ...

UK’s Wessex Water was fined £500,000 by Swindon Magistrates’ Court Monday, for two sewage leaks that killed thousands of fish, a UK government release stated. The company pleaded guilty to three ...