I. Elizabeth I saw Mary, Queen of Scots as a threat and was keen to keep her under observation in England. Sir John Neale describes the agony of Elizabeth I as she is forced to decide the fate of ...

LONDON (AP) — A painting that has gone on public display Friday could be the only portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen, Lady Jane Grey, painted during her lifetime, according to the ...

She was Queen of England for just nine days before being executed at age 17, marking the shortest reign in British history. Now new research suggests a portrait that has gone on display in Britain ...

and do better in pub quizzes.’ He is not the only comedy figure to have written about Britain’s monarchs as David Mitchell had a hit with Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens ...

In the late, chill spring of 1886, with morning frost still on the ground at eleven, the Queen left Windsor by private train early on May 4 to open the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South ...

Queen Camilla’s limousine stops in front of the crowd of cheering supporters in Middlesbrough, northeast England. Queen Camilla’s limousine stops in front of the crowd of cheering supporters ...

Of the two rival factions, Mary commanded the most support (she was after all the legitimate queen), but after defeat at the Battle of Langside she fled into exile in England. Here she sought ...

But like many Brits of my generation (I was born the year before the coronation) my life has been bookended by the reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in Britain’s long history, she is admired and ...