Joan Collins is to play Wallis Simpson in a biopic about the American socialite whose relationship with the British King led ...

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According to the British royal family's website, a “Royal Warrant of Appointment" is a seal of approval given by senior ...

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BRITAIN’S “White House” with 40 bedrooms, a ballroom and an underground swimming pool has been sold to a mystery buyer for ...

Croydon has a claim to being an important part of history, at least in one particular narrative relating to one of England's ...

Edward III ascends to the English throne after the abdication of Edward II. 1533: Henry VIII marries his second ...

Queen Elizabeth I set all the trends at court - including her sugar-rotted teeth. Famous for her love of sugar and all things ...

Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis star in the six-hour miniseries, Wolf Hall, adapted from Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The series offers an intimate look at ...

Read our beginners' guide to the turbulent events of the Tudor era before seeing Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical *SIX* in ...

Five years ago, members of a British historical society set out on a search to find a lost 15th-century palace that belonged ...