Henry VIII’s son Edward VI was notorious for his tragic, short-lived reign, but England’s doomed boy king has nothing on his close contemporary, King Francis II of France. From his father’s brutal ...

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It was found among possessions left behind by the fleeing king in 1645 after a battlefield defeat for royalist troops in ...

The BBC’s iPlayer service isn’t the biggest or the most showy streamer out there, but it was one of the first… and it’s still one of the best. At a time when TV is global and sometimes a little ...

Sarah Mullally was confirmed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England ...

King Charles III is clearly thinking about his legacy. In his new film, “Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision,” Charles delivers ...

New Jersey was a divided land of East Jersey and West Jersey, a sprawling, verdant property that focused on the Hudson River community to the north and William Penn’s burgeoning community of ...

They wore the red coat, but they spoke German. They were the only troops the Duke of Wellington trusted as[...] ...