An exciting new project at Winchester Cathedral plans to examine the remains of several of England's Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. Its also believed the chests contain the remains of the Anglo-Saxon ...

On the death of King Charles II on 6 February, 1685, his Catholic brother James, Duke of York succeeded to the throne as King James II. Charles II left no legitimate offspring but a large family of ...

Morcar was the younger son of Ælfgifu, daughter of Morcar and Ælfgar, earl of Mercia, one of the most powerful earldoms of Anglo- Saxon England, and grandson of Leofric and Godiva, who, according to ...

Although the Stuarts had lost the throne, the dynasty continued in the person of James II's son, James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766) and his sons, one of whom was Charles Edward Stuart is ...

Cynegils became ruler of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex circa 611 following the death of King Ceolwulf. His relationship with Ceolwulf is unclear. West Saxon sources are contradictory on the matter of ...

Princess Mary Henrietta, the eldest daughter of the ill fated Kiing Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France was born was born on 4 November 1631 at St. James's Palace, in London. Charles I, designated ...

When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...

The fifteen-year-old Edwy, or Eadwig, the eldest son of the former King Edmund the Elder and St. Elgiva of Shaftesbury succeeded his uncle Edred to the throne of England in the year 955. Edwy was ...

Princess Augusta was born in Gotha on 30 November 1719, she was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676-1732) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1676-1740). As a shy ...

At the age of five, Richard was married to Anne Beauchamp, the sister of the Duke of Warwick, in 1434. On the death of the Duke of Warwick in 1446, the Earldom of Warwick and its vast estates were ...

His was a difficult birth, his mother was at a precarious age for childbearing in the middle ages and the child was a breech. As an infant Richard was weak and sickly and not expected to survive the ...

Although King Richard III had only one legitimate son, Edward of Middleham, by his wife Anne Neville, he is known to have had at least two and possibly three illegitimate children. John of Gloucester, ...