Queen Elizabeth acceded to the throne at 25 (the same age as Queen Elizabeth II) and chose not to marry as a political tool. According to the royal family's official website, she instead utilized ...

When Queen Elizabeth II visited the Game of Thrones set in Northern Ireland, she baffled the cast when she refused to sit on the famous 'Iron Throne' from the series. The Queen's refusal was rooted in ...

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She didn't expect to be Queen. She was third in line to the throne. Both her brother and sister died without having children so Elizabeth became Queen.

However, trouble was never far away. In 1568 Elizabeth's cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots - a Catholic with a strong claim to the English throne - sought exile in England. Many Catholic plots centred ...

who has returned to Scotland to claim her throne. “Do not ask this of me,” Dudley pleads with Elizabeth. “If you wed her, she is ours,” Elizabeth says. “Marry the beautiful queen of ...

Queen Elizabeth confirmed earlier this year that she wants Camilla to be known as Queen when her son Charles takes the throne Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.

The Queen today marked the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne with a poignant visit ... £1.2 million Macmillan Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in nearby King's Lynn where ...

As the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend came to a close on Sunday, the monarch expressed her heartfelt thanks to all her supporters with a letter from Buckingham Palace. “When it comes to how to ...

Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering ...