Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...

As Princess Elizabeth, the late Queen was herself the very first female royal to join the army as a full-time, active member: she signed up to the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, during World ...

All the latest news and photos of Elizabeth Hurley. The English actress, model and businesswoman first came into the public eye in the late 1980s when she started dating Hugh Grant. Since ...

And Elizabeth set herself to capture the hearts of the people as she well knew how. (Not for nothing was she Anne Boleyn’s daughter.) She had spent Christmas at Whitehall; on Thursday, January 13th, ...

1552: France signs a secret treaty with German Protestants. 1559: Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey. 1582: Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, losing access to the ...

The King, his siblings, children and grandchildren. 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 ...

The State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19th September at 11am. The Funeral Service and the associated ceremonial arrangements will pay tribute to The ...

In 1923, he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and the couple had two daughters: the future Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. Following Edward’s abdication in 1936, Albert took the throne ...

There are 13 great-grandchildren from the late Queen Elizabeth's eight grandchildren. From Savannah to Sienna, meet the youngest members of the royal family Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor ...

To UK citizens, Queen Elizabeth was the Sovereign and Head of State, but to the royal babies she was simply Gan-Gan. Here, take a look at the Queen's 14 great-grandchildren—the youngest being ...