One of the most famous of all royal jewels is a red gem that has belonged to princes and kings for over 600 years. It’s got a ...

Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England from 1509 - 1547 ... success and bring greatness to his kingdom. One of the most significant events of his reign, which had a long lasting impact ...

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She didn't expect to be Queen ... William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright ever, performed his plays in front of her. While Elizabeth was ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...

An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, ...

T hough the most widely known royal pets may be Queen Elizabeth II’s brigade of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, the late monarch’s ...

An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, ...

Meanwhile, a letter written and signed by Henry VIII’s elder daughter Mary I ... Dudley provides a window on to one of history’s most famous love stories. “Mary’s letter is a vivid ...