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

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 ...

Apartheid ended in South Africa in the early 1990s and Nelson ... scientific and technological change over the last 70 years - but Queen Elizabeth II has remained a constant, stabilising presence.

Elizabeth Freeman was probably born in 1742, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. At the age of six months she was purchased, along with her sister, by John Ashley of Sheffield ...

Queen Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ... such as the end of British imperialism and control over Africa, uprisings in Northern Ireland, the Cold war, and the U.K.'s withdrawal ...

This collection follows Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's journey from princess to monarch ... BBC television film on the royal tour of South Africa in 1947. A report on how Princess Elizabeth ...

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.