Queen Elizabeth I was known to be an all-powerful monarch, a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada, a leader loved by her subjects and a muse for Shakespeare. The late Queen of England and ...

Born into royal turmoil, Elizabeth I faced betrayal, imprisonment, and religious conflict before becoming one of England’s greatest monarchs. From rebuilding the Church of England to defeating the ...

But Elizabeth had enemies like King Philip of Spain. In 1588, he sent the Spanish Armada, a fleet of more than 100 ships, to invade England. Elizabeth stayed strong. She told her soldiers and ...

Philip II of Spain launches a great fleet of ships, known as the Spanish Armada, to overthrow Elizabeth and restore Catholicism to England. The Armada of 130 ships sails up the English channel ...

It's been suggested that the monarch may have died as a child and been replaced with a village boy over fears of Henry VIII's ...

When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.

but, following the defeat of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, a certain Henry Tudor took the throne as Henry VII of England. Henry VII married Elizabeth of York ... and the Spanish ...

Jonathan Yeo Studio Jonathan Yeo painted the first official portrait of the King Charles ... which mainly owns land in the south-west of England. Worth £1.1bn, it generated a net surplus of ...

James McDermott chosen a very specific title for his new book, and he means it, for anything relating to the so-called 'Enterprise of England' in 1588 that does not directly involve Elizabeth I and ..

When his character Michael is fired, it threatens to leave him and his wife (Elizabeth McGovern ... but this is still an intimate portrait of (sometimes young) old timers in a fast-changing ...

The earl also apologises in the letter for his elusiveness during his recent journey across the Midlands of England. His marriage in 1578 to Lettice, dowager countess of Essex, who Elizabeth ...