Queen Camila brings a realness to the Royal Family, says one royal expert. King Charles had his whole life to prepare for the role of monarch, growing up the heir, but for Queen Camilla, she married into the Royal Family, and didn’t
In June 1858, at the close of the Illinois Republican State Convention, then-Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln quoted the words of Jesus of Nazareth, warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” that America could not be made of half free and
Philippa Langley, 60, is an author and historian with an unusual gift: she has a sixth sense for royal burial sites. Through a combination of painstaking research and what she calls a “strange sensation”, Ms Langley believes she may now have discovered
King George V: Expert discusses decision to change name King George V died after he was given a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine in the final few hours of the night of January 20, 1936. The 70-year-old was treated solely by
King Charles’s age poses the biggest challenge to his reign as the prospect of an ageing monarch’s “serious frailty” raises the question of the current King’s shock abdication, an historian has said. Charles III is “fit” to be king despite being the
King Charles “has a problem with Generation Z” who view the monarchy as “archaic” – and him as “the epitome of an unfair society” – a historian told the BBC in a documentary that aired last night (Monday, April 24). The special
Today marks Good Friday, the day when Christians all the world over mark the death of Jesus Christ. Holy Friday, as it is also known, is said to be the day when the son of God was crucified on the cross for
He concluded the marbles should not return to Greece without some other form of legal assurance. Arguments over the sculptures have raged for centuries since they were seized by Lord Elgin in 1799. The Scottish aristocrat dismantled and obtained artworks from temples
A historian who contributed to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s controversial Netflix series is set to be honoured with an OBE by the King today. Professor David Olusoga – the author of Black and British – featured in the docu-series that contained