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Sally Bedell Smith’s “George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy” explores a wholly different epoch in the Windsor saga.
One might think that Stephen King had a novel in the upper echelons of bestsellers, but no single tome of his has shaken the Earth. If one counts all eight novels in King's "Dark Tower" series as ...
Well, well. In Dubya’s latest attempt to justify a war with Iraq, he has stooped to a new level of intellectual stupidity. As you may have read, this past Thursday, King George II, in pushing his ...
The legacy of Queen Elizabeth II will not only live in history books, but in the many films and television series that have been inspired by her life story.
Shortly before he died, King George V wrote to Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister, in despair about his eldest son, Edward, Prince of Wales. 'After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within 12 ...
King Charles recited some of Queen Elizabeth's diary entry from the iconic night she snuck out in London to celebrate VE Day in his speech on the 80th anniversary.
By the time Mr. Coe arrives at the end of his road, you will know more about George and Tammy, who had both become stars individually before marrying in 1969, than you would have learned from the ...
George VI had been crowned King just three years before the outbreak of World War II, and his and Elizabeth’s nerves, perseverance, and courage would be severely tested during the conflict ...
Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 Thursday, setting off a wave of changes and procedures as Britain and the royal family mourn their longest-serving monarch.
King George II of Greece with his wife Elisabeth, daughter of the King of Romania. The pair's union was an ill-judged move that ended in divorce in 1935 In Athens in 1947, George suffered a heart ...