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.

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Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II ... This followed the 2013 abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as well as King ...

The emperor set up shelters inside his properties ... of Oxford professor named Christopher Wren, who presented King Charles II with a visionary layout of wide avenues, radial vistas and open ...

Built in 1753, the Grade II listed mansion on Charles Street became the home of British Foreign Secretary James Harris (1807-1889), or the third Earl of Malmesbury, almost 100 years later.

The library of Cohen Media Group’s founder, Charles S. Cohen, comprises more than one hundred restored classic titles spanning from the silent era to the present day, including The Buster Keaton ...

In 1662 Charles married Portuguese infanta Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV (she is buried in Portugal). They had no children but Charles had 13 children by various mistresses. Charles ...

Never before, or since, has a king met such an untimely end like Charles I. He was proclaimed king in 1625 upon his father’s death and spent the entirety of his reign in conflict with his parliament.

King Charles III went to Auschwitz in January to mark 80 years since the Nazi concentration camp's liberation. The visit followed a tour of Australia, in October, which reignited the debate about ...

At the National, RSC and Royal Court, he excelled as fastidious, often supercilious authority figures, played with sardonic humour Charles Kay ... the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II (a ...

Britain invaded Abyssinia in 1868 after Emperor Tewodros II took European ... which will include a demand that the Royal Collection of King Charles hands over sacred and secular artefacts taken ...