King George VI was sitting in a small room overlooking ... with the Duke urging the Nazis to bomb Britain 'to make England ready for peace'. In the event of a successful invasion, the alleged ...

Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, historian Dan Snow reviews depictions of kings and queens of England and Great ...

Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance and determination.

Born into a political and religious maelstrom and the King of Scotland by the age of one, James VI found comfort in many ...

From Cillian Murphy and Will Smith to Sidney Poitier and Daniel Day-Lewis, a roll call of every Best Actor winner since the ...

His death on February 18, 1478, followed his conviction for treason against his older brother, Edward IV of England. George ... those of the reigning king, Henry VI. The two camps were factions ...

If the committee-approved memorial of Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park is to be imaginative, well realised and uplifting, it may need a total rethink, says Jonathan Glancey ...

It is essential for prospective candidates to know the status of schools abroad before applying for obvious reasons. In this ...

King Henry VI of England left his pregnant wife Margaret of Anjou at home and travelled from court to the West Country on a judicial visit. Stopping off at Clarendon Palace in Wiltshire the ...

Royal health woes did not end there when Princess Anne ended up in intensive care after a mysterious accident involving a horse. Only last month, the Princess Royal said of the emergency that she had ...

The Princess Royal broke from tradition in more ways than one when she married Sir Timothy Laurence in 1992 – and now ...

Noel George says running Il Est Francais in the Ryanair Chase over two and a half miles "would be our preference" at ...