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.

A recently auctioned 1998 letter to his confidant Dudley Poplak offers unprecedented insight into King Charles outlook on ...

"After their relatively short stint in Upper Canada, the Simcoe family returned to England and lived at Wolford Lodge on ...

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, is ‘more interested’ in her faith following her cancer diagnosis – but with Prince William ...

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 ...

Jane Boleyn (née Parker) was the daughter of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, a gentleman usher to Henry VIII, and his wife Alice. No record of Jane’s birth survives but she began her court service in ...

Coughton Court near Alcester remains home to the Throckmortons. Four of the plotters were members of the Throckmorton family.

By analyzing microfossils — fossils about the size of a thumbnail — within the limestone, researchers found that the tiny ...

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

Zara Tindall, left, Mike Tindall, right, and Queen Elizabeth leave after attending celebrations for the Queen's 90th birthday on June 12, 2016, in London, England. (Toby Melville/Getty Images) Tindall ...

Elizabeth Gould was born Elizabeth Coxen at Ramsgate, a blustery ­English seaside town, during the reign of King George III and Queen Charlotte. Hers was an old Kent family who, for generations, had ...