 King John granted Magna Carta the great charter perhaps the world's most famous document. Although first sealed some 800 years ago Magna Carta remains a living presence today. In 2006 an opinion polls suggested that most people believe that Magna Carta Day 15th of June should be a national holiday. To think that these sentences were agreed and written 800 years ago is is quite astonishing to those who thought that Magna Carta had been largely forgotten and that if it was remembered at all it was only through the immortal words of Tony Hancock who asked, doesn't Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?