King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield’s twelve-line ode, “On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,”* Queen Elizabeth II returned to ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified documents. The files about Anthony ...

Only 25 years old when King George VI died, Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952. She ruled longer than any other British Monarch. Smithsonian collections reflect her influence on global history ...

The pageant master for Queen Elizabeth's jubilees hopes to unite the nation with music and pipers. Anthony Blunt confessed in 1964 to being a Soviet agent, but Elizabeth II was not informed.