One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical music composer and a Jewish pianist.

Princess Isabella turns 18 on 21 April and will be celebrating the big day with another party on 15 April after joining her family in Aarhus on 11 April ...

Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales reportedly have strong opposing views about which school their eldest son, Prince George, should enroll in. The 11-year-old is second in line to the British throne.

When Charles Stratton was born in 1838, he was a normal baby of slightly above-average weight. But at six months old and 25 ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...

T he legendary diamond mines of Golconda are all gone now. The demand for their extraordinary stones—devoid of nitrogen, ...