She’s in line to be Queen of Norway one day, but Princess Ingrid Alexandra has to take a lower place in another line of ...

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

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

reaching seven decades on the throne. The UK has undergone huge social, scientific and technological change over the last 70 years - but Queen Elizabeth II has remained a constant, stabilising ...

Thirty-three of Queen Mary’s photo albums currently being conserved document official engagements, royal tours and private family gatherings ...