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

By Chuddy Oduenyi One of Africa’s most accomplished scholars and an eminent traditional ruler Igwe (Prof.) Laz Ekwueme, Eze ...

Historian John Davies looks at the treatment of Wales by Tudor monarchs. The house of Tudor ruled England, Wales and Ireland ...

Warwick’s decision to crown Edward as King left England with two kings - Edward IV and Henry VI. This meant there would be further conflict to decide who would be the official King of England.

He refers to Queen Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV, as a “damned strumpet” or ... Richard III left a legacy in English history as one of England’s worst monarchs. That legacy includes his ...

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 ...

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of ...

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 ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best ...

Coming in at first place is King Felipe VI of Spain, who stands at 6ft 5' tall (1.97m), according to the Guinness World Records official site. The monarch towered over members of the British Royal ...

Once considered a luxury item and given as a love token — or even used as a makeshift toothbrush — the handkerchief still ...