The late Queen of England and Ireland was so legendary that her reign was officially crowned the Elizabethan era. But one ...

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

Hadleigh vicar Dr Rowland Taylor was put to death. Dr Taylor was one of many Protestant martyrs killed under Mary I.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will make a State Visit to the Holy See in April. It is an historic moment as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England meets the Pontiff. For ...

Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England from 1509 - 1547 ... and then by his grandchildren, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The Tudors ruled from 1485 to 1603. The Wars of the Roses ...

The letter was written on January 28, 1554, and addressed to William Paget, a prominent diplomat who served in the courts of ...

1899: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, dies aged 24 in mysterious circumstances. On the same day, the ...

Queen Elizabeth II has been revealed as Britain's most popular monarch since 1066, according to a new YouGov survey. The late ...

In England in the 1800s the ratio of nobility to servants was about 1:10 – then came the industrial revolution.

‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.

On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain’s King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by ...