Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death in 1603. Here are 15 things you might not know about Good Queen Bess. She very nearly wasn’t queen at all.

In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat. Elizabeth was briefly ...

Every year on May 19, at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England, the former home of the Boleyn family ... The energies remain.” ...

I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. The defeat of the Spanish Armada is often talked about as the crowning achievement of Elizabeth I's golden age and a defining ...

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps the greatest. Her forces defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion, she reinstated Protestantism and forged an ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, the rightful monarch of Scotland, was most known for her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I of England, one ...

The removal of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh from 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Starmer now lives, is an outrageous cashiering of two of England’s glories that bodes ...

A ceremony to unveil the statue was held on Queen Elizabeth II's birthday A statue of Queen Elizabeth II, thought to be the ...

More than 400 years after her death, the truth about "the Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the ...

The teenager accused in a stabbing rampage that killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been ...

The Democrat has pitched herself as a proven and trusted leader on Capitol Hill and voters responded by electing her to a ...