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[Trillipse]

are there any good sites where i can find potted histories and depictions of english kings and queens?

[jeanyb]

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online is very good, but you will probably have to access it through your local library's website if they subscribe to it.

[jake-the-peg]

Try this one:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp

[Trillipse]

Jake: perfect! exactly what i was after...

what a cracking site!