The Magna Carta, 810 years old, inherited ideas from the Charter of Liberties. These documents, rooted in practical ...

Everyone knows that King Charles I was the least successful of England’s many Kings and Queens. The idea is traditional, well ...

Throughout English history, there have seldom been many kings with the same warrior prowess as King Edward I. Born as the ...

Henry IV. His own orderly reign brought stability to England, allowing him to (barely) finance his conquest of much of France. Bookish and artistic, he meticulously stage-managed his public image ...

Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl who helped lead France to victory, was burned at the stake after being convicted of ...

I just found out that George R.R. Martin's House of the Dragon, which was adapted into an HBO series, was inspired by a real-world power struggle for the English throne.

Sinister conversations in hushed tones behind gold-plated Gothic columns faintly illumined by flickering torchlight.

Thady Gosden, joint-trainer of Audience He ran over six furlongs in Dubai in March and ran a nice race, but he's more ...

When Anna is asked how she would feel if the king were to die, she replies contemptuously that ... remote as the existence of someone in Outer Siberia. Here, it’s only when Henry becomes the first ...

Toil and TroubleAn engraving reproduces Henry Fuseli’s 1783 painting of ... the play was a compliment to the newly crowned king of England, James I, who had published a book on witchcraft ...

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry ...