Born in 1958 during the reign of his grandfather, George VI, Charles was the longest-serving Prince of Wales in history before reaching the age of 73. A graduate in the Arts, he served in both the Air ...

Queen Elizabeth II's father never expected to take the throne—until a royal ruckus changed the monarchy forever. Our royal ...

The case of the missing King's Statue sceptre in Weymouth - a royal mystery that has baffled locals for more than 40 years - could be wrapped ...

The Order of the Garter is the oldest chivalric order in Great Britain. King Edward III founded the Most Noble Order of the ...

IN THE NEWS: It has been exactly 250 years since the battle for American independence began with Paul Revere’s fabled ...

An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an ...

From official portraits to informal photocalls, here are pictures of the royal family from the 1930s until the present.

Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

How did George III die? Was it raving in a straightjacket? Who stayed with him at the end of his long illness? Today we uncover the truth about George III, the man unfairly reduced to being the mad ...

Prince Louis celebrated his birthday on Wednesday after a roller-coaster year dominated by his mother's cancer treatment.

England is far from the only country or region to claim St George as its patron. England shares St George with Venice, Genoa, Portugal, Ethiopia and Catalonia among others as their patron saint and ...