For Queen Elizabeth II, the death of her father was on the horizon for some time, but when it came, it was still a great shock. King George VI had been suffering from ... wrote in the Treetops guest ...

The Coronation ceremony ... when his grandfather George VI, the last British King, died in his bed in 1952 after a battle with lung cancer and his mother became Queen Elizabeth II, aged just ...

The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 12 May 1937 gave the fledgling BBC Television Service its first major outside broadcasting challenge, just six months after inauguration.

Royal changes In September 2022, millions of people around the world mourned Queen Elizabeth II’s death. But the end of her 70-year-long reign as the British monarch forced change beyond Princes ...

Dig into these unmissable accounts of the lives and loves of the British royals—spanning just over 30 years of recent history.

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

It was during this period that she met the prince, who became King on the ... that led to the coronation of his younger brother, George VI – father of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are staying in a luxury hotel in Canada ahead of the Invictus Games, which began on Saturday ...

Racing has lost one of its true gentlemen with the passing of former leading trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton at the age of 84. Fulke Johnson Houghton was born into the game as both of his parents were ...

In 1893 the Duke of York and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (later King George V and Queen Mary) were married in the Chapel ... and Charles II's great coronation alms-dish of 1660. Other pieces of ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla celebrated Rona Grafton's 100th birthday during an away day in Middlesbrough, hand-delivering ...