Historians, including unofficial but highly regarded royal biographers Sally Bedell Smith and Hugo Vickers, have expressed ...

Al-Fayed was "fascinated by the story of the British monarch who gave up his crown and his empire to marry a twice-divorced American," The New York Times said in 1989, and he spent three years and ...

Through war, policy and marriage they dragged Scotland from the margins of European affairs to centre stage and, almost incredibly, they took the crown of the old enemy – England. Originating ...

In 1671 a former Civil War soldier and his gang conned their way into stealing the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It became the first and only time anyone has attempted to steal them.

The Triple Crown is contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Should one of those teams beat the other three, they win the Triple Crown. Though not named as such then, it was first ...