What do Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and HG Wells ... King Henry VIII legalised first-cousin marriage in 1540, so he could tie the knot with fifth wife Catherine Howard. And, as we reveal ...

Albert Einstein. (credit: dorfun is marked with CC0 1.0. Via Flickr) Munich-born Robert Einstein, a first cousin of renowned scientist Albert Einstein, was living at Il Focardo in the Tuscan ...

When the personal becomes the political, it can have a devastating effect on those feeling the sharp end of such a vicious vendetta. Here, Thomas Harding looks at how Hitler conspired to hunt down and ...

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein (1879-1955 ... Einstein did not address these dramatic lines to his first wife Mileva, his second wife, his cousin Elsa, or to one of his many mistresses.

Charles Darwin, the grandchild of first cousins, married a first cousin. So did Albert Einstein. In our lore, cousin marriages are unnatural, the province of hillbillies and swamp rats, not ...

Albert Einstein is ... 1905 was a huge year for Einstein. He published five papers in the German Yearbook of Physics, three or them groundbreaking. The first was on the motion of particles ...

Einstein had two other children with Maric, Hans Albert and Eduard, born in 1904 and 1910, respectively. Einstein divorced Maric in 1919 and soon married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal, with whom he ...

Albert Einstein is ... 1905 was a huge year for Einstein. He published five papers in the German Yearbook of Physics, three or them groundbreaking. The first was on the motion of particles ...