Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural ...

Edward abdicated on December 10. The Queen Mother gave her halo tiara to her daughter, then Princess Elizabeth on her 18th birthday. Cartier has been called the King of jewellery, but it is very ...

But when Harthacnut died after a short reign in 1042, the English selected Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother, Edward the Confessor, as king instead. He died in 1066, and we’re all very ...

Marriage and Family Life Prince Albert's uncle, Prince Leopold, who became King of the Belgians in 1831, hoped that the Prince would marry his cousin, Princess Victoria, heir presumptive to the ...