Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern ...

While several European nations will next have a queen on their throne, Sweden is the only nation to have two generations of ...

Appointed Conservative Whip in the House of Lords in 1883, he became Queen Victoria’s Lord-in-Waiting in 1885 and ... Information in this biography has been taken from: A Fraser, ‘Quinn, James Peter ...

particularly over the length of the official biography, is the Englishing of the royal family during Mary’s lifetime. The process was hastened by the First World War, but it was already apparent – to ...

It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot ...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Pasadena wildfire victims in California, as the wildfires continue to sweep through ...

Boxing day changed during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 1800s. On the day after Christmas, wealthy families would box up gifts of leftovers and presents for the poor and give them to the less ...

It might help if we stopped calling them ‘the Brothers Grimm’, which always makes them sound like characters in one of their ...

The monument was erected in 1890 to mark the 50th year of the reign of Queen Victoria, who had celebrated her Golden Jubilee three years earlier. The Happy Valley, a former quarry, was gifted to the ...

Queen Victoria was furious with then-Prime Minister Lord Salisbury over his government's failure to bring Jack the Ripper to justice during his infamous 1888 killing spree. The revelation comes ...

Queen Victoria scolded the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury for the failure to catch Jack the Ripper. Historian Lucy Worsley discovered the dressing-down in a telegram the monarch sent to the PM ...

Legend has it that in 1836, Queen Victoria walked into the gentlemen-only Reform Club in central London to order a drink. And a very specific drink: a Soyeur au Champagne, made with Champagne ...