Royal watchers around the world were thrilled with the announcement that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting a child in the spring of 2019. The news, issued by Kensington Palace, came five months after the royal pair's wedding at Windsor ...read more
Queen Elizabeth II has since 1952 served as reigning monarch of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and numerous other realms and territories, as well as head of the Commonwealth, the group of 53 sovereign nations that includes many former British ...read more
Throughout history, royal families have carefully crafted their images, using artists and photographers to portray them in a majestic and iconic light. Sometimes these images had serious consequences—whether they were the ones intended or not. Here are the stories of some of the ...read more
When Prince Harry weds Meghan Markle, he won’t just be breaking the mold by marrying an American actress. Markle is also divorced—her two-year-long marriage to producer Trevor Engelson ended in 2013. That’s a big deal: Marrying a divorced person was taboo among the British ...read more
Twenty years ago, on September 6, 1997, a coffin was wheeled through the streets of London on the back of a gun carriage. Within the coffin were the mortal remains of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died in a car crash seven days before. The funeral followed strict royal ...read more
For many women over the centuries, marriage to a royal consort has not been the fairytale we believe it to be. They battled drunk husbands, loveless marriages, led coups, killed off husbands, or sometimes quietly waited for good fortune to come their way. These women took fate ...read more
Princess Diana—who married into British royalty, only to later be divorced from it—devoted herself to charitable causes and became a global icon before dying in a car accident in Paris in 1997. When she married Prince Charles in 1981, Lady Diana Spencer became the first ...read more
According to Bedell Smith, the trouble started even before they were married. Charles, it seems, stumbled into the marriage—press speculation of their affair reached such fever pitch that his father, Prince Philip’s, advice to either end the relationship or propose, forced ...read more
Britain’s monarchy dates back to the 10th century, when the great Anglo-Saxon ruler Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, defeated the last of the Viking invaders to consolidate control of the island nation. The last 12 centuries have seen more than 50 men and women assume the ...read more
Robert Moore The skeletal remains of Robert Moore, who addressed hundreds of letters and parcels to Queen Elizabeth II, were found near Buckingham Palace in March, British authorities announced this week. It is believed that the homeless American arrived in the United Kingdom in ...read more
1. Diana was the first British citizen to marry the heir to the English throne in more than 300 years. The last had been Anne Hyde, a maid of honor who wed the future King James II in 1660 while seven months pregnant with his child. Like Diana, Anne died in her 30s and never ...read more