Qualla: Bailiwick of Guernsey https://qualla.com/bailiwick-of-guernsey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bailiwick of Guernsey https://qualla.com/bailiwick-of-guernsey Bailiwick of Guernsey: Introduction https://qualla.com/bailiwick-of-guernsey/ When King John lost mainland Normandy to France in 1204, a scatter of small islands off the Cotentin Peninsula chose differently. They stayed loyal to the English crown - and they have never stopped being loyal since. Today the Bailiwick of Guernsey is the strangest constitutional creature in the British family: not part of the United Kingdom, not independent of it either, a self-governing Crown Dependency whose 67,000 people live on what is, in a very real sense, the last surviving piece of medieval Normandy.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/1/bailiwick-of-guernsey-wp/gby1-bailiwick-of-guernsey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bailiwick of Guernsey: The Last Piece of Normandy https://qualla.com/bailiwick-of-guernsey/ Trace the story back far enough and you reach the year 933, when William Longsword annexed these islands from the Duchy of Brittany into the Duchy of Normandy. The Channel Islands then rode along with William the Conqueror in 1066, becoming part of the lands of England's new Norm...

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