On September 13, 1940, a German pilot had been given a simple order: to destroy Buckingham Palace and kill the King and Queen ...

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, spent his life engaged in a power struggle that pitted cousins and siblings against ...

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.

On his death bed accounts credit Edward's dying wish to be that his bones be left unburied as long as Scotland was unconquered. Mercifully this request was ignored. As arguably, England's greatest ...

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

28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1547, Henry VIII died and 9-year-old Edward VI became king of England ... in police custody in 1977 and whose death had been officially listed as an accident.

An ambulance driver has escaped being struck off from the profession after causing the death of a colleague. However, Edward Riding ... road to the Garden of England Crematorium, in Bobbing ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh received a rapturous welcome from a Nepali hillside village on the last day of their tour. After spending Saturday trekking in the Annapurna Conservation Area, the ...

The play I love the most – and, for me, Shakespeare’s best – is what the First Folio of 1623 calls The Life and Death of King ...

Although the peace doesn't last, the couple's great-grandson, James I of England and VI of Scotland ... The cause of his death is not certain. Edward's half-sister Mary takes the throne, after ...

On February 8, 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq) opened. In 1960, the ...

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