Christie’s was set this month to sell the 17th century painting known as Saint Sébastien, by Greek master El Greco, but ...

Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory ...

In The Merchant of Venice 1936, which comes to The Lowry next week, Shakespeare’s harsh plot snaps into place against this backdrop. Shylock, its anti-hero, is a Jewish moneylender who becomes ...

But here she is speaking about her great-grandmother and aunts, women with nicknames like Machine-Gun Molly and Sarah ...

Dresden marked the 80th anniversary of the Allied Bombing of the city in World War II, commemorating the 25,000 victims with several events.

As a royal presentation piece, writes royal blog The Crown Chronicles, the Coronation brooch would likely have been presented to members of the royal family to mark King Edward VII’s accession to the ...

The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Blood Libel, and Pogroms shaped centuries of Jewish persecution in Christian Europe. While ...

After their wedding, they became the Earl and Countess of Wessex. In March 2023, King Charles made Edward and Sophie, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. The couple, who reside at Bagshot Park in ...

Today, King Willem Alexander sits on the Dutch Throne with his wife, Queen Maxima, beside him. Wondering who else the modern ...

SHE was the first “commoner” to marry into the royal family for over a century – long before the likes of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle. And now 92-year-old Katharine, Duchess of Kent ...