George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was born into a tumultuous family oft engaged in power struggles. His death on February ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

Following the death of Edward the Confessor, there were several claimants to the English throne. Harold Godwinson was from Wessex, in England. He was a wealthy nobleman, and it is claimed that ...

Getty Images Princess Anne, 18th in the line of succession to the British throne, married English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman Mark Philips in 1973. Together, they welcomed two children ...

When James VI of Scotland ascended the throne of England as James I in 1603 ... homosexuality and all-round Scottishness defied conventional ideas of what an English king should be. The person to whom ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle ...

The tumult began in George’s early childhood. His father was Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, a claimant to the English throne. George was born in 1449, and by 1459, violence had escalated ...

Following the death of Edward the Confessor, there were several claimants to the English throne. Harold Godwinson was from Wessex, in England. He was a wealthy nobleman, and it is claimed that ...