Queen Elizabeth II's father never expected to take the throne—until a royal ruckus changed the monarchy forever. Our royal ...

Offering a chance to add your name to a list of illustrious former titleholders, including Hugh de Audley, a favourite and ...

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and, fatally, Mary I ... Like Cranmer, the next occupant of Lambeth Palace will lead the Church of England at a time of political ...

It is a measure of the original work’s quality and its excellent adaptation to TV that historical revisionism remains central ...

The Prince of Wales is to attend the Pope’s funeral on behalf of the King, Kensington Palace has announced. Heir to the ...

On June 21, 1982, people in the United Kingdom weren't just celebrating midsummer and the longest day of the year, the joyful ...

This is what Hilary Mantel did brilliantly in her Wolf Hall trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, a figure central to the religious and dynastic upheavals of 16th-century England, who influenced the ...

By VE Day he was training near Loughborough for a posting to Burma, to relieve crews who had been there for three years. "VE ...

Heir to the throne William, a future head of the Church of England, will represent his father ... masses of Pope John Paul I and Pope Paul VI, who both died in 1978, and to that of Pope Pius ...

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps ... executed for plotting to marry Elizabeth and kidnap Edward VI. When Elizabeth is questioned by the authorities she protests ...