When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

The Pope gives a special dispensation for the young king ... in 1514. Henry VIII orders the creation of the first national postal service for royal mail. Called 'The King’s Posts', it was ...

T hough the most widely known royal pets may be Queen Elizabeth II’s brigade of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, the late monarch’s ...

Bill Gates became, at 31 years old, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Personal computers were rapidly becoming ubiquitous and Gates’s company, Microsoft, made the software (the ...

Prince Harry was filmed showing off some dance moves in front of competitors ahead of the Invictus Games opening ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France ... She lived in poverty during the reign of Mary I and in about 1555 married her young master of horse Adrian Stock, or Stokes, ...

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She didn't expect to be Queen ... To show people she could rule the country well, she had portraits painted of her as strong, mighty and rich ...

David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s relationship with the E.U. at the same time?