Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of ...

Map locates Bradford-on-Tone and Midsomer Norton in England. Wearing a crown of ivy, mistletoe, hellebore and rosemary, the queen used a ... a professor of history at the University of Bristol ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, historian Dan Snow reviews depictions of kings and queens of England and Great ...

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 ...

She assumed the title of Queen in 1952 after her father's death and reigned for more than 70 years until her death on Sept. 8, 2022, making her the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning British monarch in history, taking the throne on ... and it's distilled in England's oldest gin distillery." Although von Gootkin never met the queen ...