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He was surely one of Sunderland’s most incredible figures - and his life will be under the spotlight this week.
Historically, royals often married relatives. Is this still the case today? Here's some expert insight on royal ...
One figure who lived an especially interesting life was Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. As Queen Victoria's youngest son and second youngest child, Leopold, played a key role during his short life ...
Royal christenings are amongst one of the highly-anticipated royal events of all time - with Prince George 's one in 2013 no ...
Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – ...
For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College drank wine and served chocolates from a silver-rimmed chalice made from ...
Born in the presence of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 5 April 1863 ... Prince Charles, both her great-grandson and godchild. Other godparents included King George VI and Princess Margaret. In ...
AFP London: A spellbinding exhibition of Cartier jewels, many never seen before in public, is opening in London tracing the ...
Like many of her fellow royals, Princess Madeleine of Sweden has been celebrating Easter, and while the daughter of King Carl ...
Aldeburgh based writers Frances Welch and Tallulah Brown's work puts women front and centre. Here, they tell Catherine Larner how they inspire ...
Charles announced he had cancer in February 2024, without specifying which kind, but began returning to work at the end of April.
The Sotheby’s auction listing showed it had a wooden stand inlaid with a Queen Victoria shilling and a ... Oxford in 1946 by the archaeologist’s grandson, the eugenicist George Pitt-Rivers ...