News about Henry III

The coin depicts the King's profile bust as well as an inscription by Simon pleading to be chosen as his chief engraver. It is thought to be one of less than 20 living specimens. Instead, the monarch selected the Rottier brothers for the job, but only a handful of Simon's 'it' examples were struck.'

A trio of rare British coins is expected to sell at auction for a whopping £1 million. The first in the trio is a King Charles II silver Pattern crown (bottom right), which has been appraised by auctioneers at £400,000. The same amount is used for a King Henry III gold penny worth 20 pence (left). Also, a Queen Anne gold 5 guineas dating back to 1706 (top right) has been appraised at £240,000.

Since arriving in 1914, Winnie the American black bear (pictured left with his rescuer Harry Colebourn) was a fixture at London Zoo. AA Milne and his son Christopher Robin were among the entranced visitors. Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh, which later became a global phenomenon. By European kings, King Henry III was given three lions, an elephant, and a polar bear, leading to the construction of the Tower of London's menagerie (inset top, lions, and tigers fighting in the 19th century). King George III was the lucky owner of a cheetah that was named Miss Jenny and prominently depicted by artist George Stubbs. Egyptian emperor and son George IV was one of three European monarchs to be presented with a giraffe (right) by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt. However, both were dwarfed in terms of gifted animals by late Queen Elizabeth II, who was given hundreds of animals throughout her reign. Many, including two pygmy hippopotami, were immediately put into the care of London Zoo. Inset bottom: Obaysch was Europe's first living hippo since Roman times. He appeared in 1850.

There are almost 1,250 towns in the United Kingdom, but they all do different things. Some are stunning holiday destinations to escape the hustle and bustle, while others are designed for commuters looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. Travel experts from around the country banded together and gave their verdict on towns including Rye, Chagford, Queensferry, Merthyr Tydfil, and Telford. The medieval town of Rye is home to 4,000 residents, with cobbled lanes and stunning beamed buildings that have earned it a spot on the 'prettiest' list.

At auction, a hand-stitched book in which Princess Diana's great-grandmother Adelaide Seymour listed the names of all her dance partners during the London season has sold at auction. Miss AHE Seymour's Victorian diary, Balls & My Partners, was one of 343 lots sold last week by Lay's Auctioneers, Penzance, Cornwall, raising more than £250,000 for renowned antiques collector Peter Hone. Mr Hone, 82, who lives in Maida Vale, London, was absolutely elated last night.' I'm absolutely elated.' I'm overjoyed here. It's been the highlight of my life.

CRAIG BROWN: They may be all very well in the right place at the right time, but which of us would want to wake every morning to the headachey drone of bagpipes? Pipe Major Paul Burns (pictured at Clarence House) woke our new King with 15 minutes of bagpipe music as he marched around Clarence House on Tuesday morning. The purchase of a personal bagpiper was prompted by the desire to keep up with the Joneses, as with so many of the luxuries of the well-to-do.

Chances are you aren't paying too close attention to your surroundings if you're heading to the GP. However, a pleasant environment might be just what you need to lift you up a little bit. FEMAIL has been looking in the United Kingdom for the five prettiest and five ugliest GP surgeries. If you toured all of them in a single trip, you'd drive 911 miles and it would take more than 18 hours non-stop. In Hove, a converted 150-year-old Grade II listed church (left), a 19th-Century former school repurposed for the NHS, as well as a beautiful townhouse-style building (bottom right).

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Of all the spectacular shows that have unfolded in our country's capital over the past 70 years, there has never been one like Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. It was also Britain's saddest day and our best, utterly stunning and yet poignant. And amid the pomp and glamour, it was difficult to forget that this was a farewell to an individual human being, a wife and mother with dreams and concerns that we may never know. And as I watched her children and grandchildren, I was reminded of many humbler funerals, much removed from the world's view. Of course, this was not just a private function. Such is the burden of monarchy. Even in death, there can be a great deal between the personal and the public for a queen.

The A4 and A30 in West London's direction towards Windsor have started to close, with complete closures in both directions after 10 a.m., which are unlikely to be lifted until the evening. Multiple closures on local roads along the A4 will also be in force. People traveling around central, West, and South West London were advised to check ahead of flying, allow extra time, and plan long delays. This morning, a large police presence was in place outside Chelsea Hospital, where VIPs and world leaders will ride buses to Westminster Abbey later today for the funeral service. Multiple routes will be diverted or stopped short of their destinations, and bus routes will also be badly affected, with several routes diverted or stopping early. Between one and two million people are scheduled to attend the funeral, which starts at 11 a.m.

The government said it prevented mourners from joining the line to see the Monarch standing in state ahead of her funeral tomorrow.

According to staff from the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, the end point, which is now near Tower Bridge, has been relocated due to reduced numbers in the line. With the line running about 3.5 miles long, mourners who have waited to see the Queen's coffin this evening for about eight hours, a much shorter wait time than those who have endured in the last couple of days when it at one time exceeded 24 hours. However, people are being warned that if the queue reaches its maximum capacity this evening, it will be closed at an unspecified time, and that no one should be rushing to London to join it.'

The disgraced Duke of York has paid tribute to his mother, Queen Elizabeth, by saying, "Mummy, your love for a son, your compassion, and your care will be treasured forever." Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his honorary military titles by Her Majesty for his ties with paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and exiled from public life, praised the late monarch for her 'independence and wisdom infinite, with no boundaries or containment,' he said. 'Mummy, Mother, Your Majesty, Three in a' and said it had been a 'honor and honour' to serve her. Andrew accompanied his words with a black and white photograph taken by society photographer Cecil Beaton of his mother holding him as a newborn in March 1960.

Around a million people will line the streets of London tomorrow to see spectacular scenes of majesty and splendour, punctuated by poignant moments of sadness and solemnity, as Her Majesty's coffin is carried from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey. For the first Royal State Funeral in Westminster Abbey in more than 200 years, monarchs, Presidents, and Prime Ministers from virtually every region - as well as 2,000 in the congregation, including Armed Forces veterans, physicians, and charity workers. The Queen's coffin will be carried from the abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner before being carried by State Hearse to Windsor. She will be lowered into the Royal Vault at St George's Chapel, where she will be accompanied by her beloved husband Prince George VI and the Queen Mother, and where her sister Princess Margaret's ashes are laid to rest.

The Queen's lying-in-state begins today, as tens of thousands of mourners face the possibility of being turned away from the massive queue that snakes her way through London before her coffin is removed from public view in Westminster Hall tomorrow morning. The late monarch's casket will remain in Westminster's Palace until 6.30 a.m. on Thursday, ahead of the state funeral in Westminster Abbey. Officials are warning that the five-mile queue that snaked its way along the Thames River to Southwark Park will stop running 'well before' tomorrow morning, and possibly as soon as this evening - but everyone in line is expected to file past Her Majesty's casket. Around 4.30 p.m. yesterday, the wheelchair-friendly queue for people with disabilities came to a close. The estimated queuing time was at least 12 hours as of 5 a.m., much less than the peak of more than 25 hours observed in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The late monarch's state funeral will honor the late monarch's place in history while still mourning the loss of a grieving family at its center, according to the Dean of Westminster. The service on Monday, according to the Very Reverend Dr. David Hoyle, who will lead the service, was almost unprecedented, even for Westminster Abbey, where so many royal milestones have occurred throughout history. 'It's on a scale that even Westminster Abbey doesn't often do,' he said, adding that it'd be a 'wonderful blend of great ceremony and some very insightful yet very common word'.

On a journey around every continent in search of the lost, disappearing, and vanished, you will be transported around the world. Travis Elborough, a writer and cultural commentator, explores not only how the world looks today but also how it appears in Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Are Today (Aurum Press), but also how it once looked. From Skara Brae in Orkney to the vast ancient city of Chan Chan Chan in north-west Peru, Elborough is observing natural wonders that are shrinking at an alarming rate, from the Congo Basin Rainforest to the Everglades and the Dead Sea, and threats to man-made worlds. In addition, the river in Canada that vanished in four days - as well as the Caribbean's submerged pirate town.