All hail for St George at Richmond Castle
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 April 2012National pride is usually at the heart of any St George’s Day event, but even more so at Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire on Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 April, when the kings’ troops are mustering support for a march North! Thankfully, this is not a sign of a new skirmish with a Nordic nation, but a recreation of the St George’s Day celebrations from 1482, when the English army was preparing the ground for its march on Scotland the following year. “We’re staging this event towards the end of the Wars of the Roses, when the houses of York and Lancaster