Joan Collins attends the "Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins' Story" U.K. Premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on July 1, 2021 in London, England and The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, at her greenhouse in ...

The long, momentous Victorian age came to an end with the death of the old Queen in 1901 - while the accession of her son, ...

Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England from 1509 - 1547 ... and then by his grandchildren, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The Tudors ruled from 1485 to 1603. The Wars of the Roses ...

This is no empty ritual. Edward VIII, the first man to ascend to the throne as a bachelor since George III, may never marry a Roman Catholic. England and Scotland have not forgotten the Stuarts.

“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back g ...

The majestic Château de Breteuil becomes the setting for a one-day historical re-enactment. On Sunday, June 29, 2025, as visitors pass through the gates of the estate, they travel back in time to the ...

London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...

Blackbeard may be the world’s most famous pirate, but throughout history there have been many legendary buccaneers who also ...

The years between the crowning of Henry VII in 1485 and ... Edward's uncle Edward Seymour seizes power by establishing himself as protector. In order to make England a truly Protestant state ...

The socialite Wallis Simpson reportedly was the inn's first hostess before her famous affair and eventual marriage to King Edward VIII ... the head of the Church of England, which barred ...