Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death ... She kept up appearances with an ample supply of gallant wigs and the application of white makeup over her ...

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 ...

Like many people, ever year on 5 November, I find myself muttering the words of this familiar rhyme, so deep is it ingrained ...

Many even weaponised beauty, ritual and fashion for their own gain. Cleopatra did this to hold onto power in ancient Egypt, ...

Elizabeth of Austria, hailed the ‘mother of kings’, is still remembered more for her supposed lack of beauty than for her ...

The late Queen Elizabeth II is making a surprise Hollywood movie cameo ... A section of the footage of her with the CGI bear will make up her cameo in ‘Paddington 3, which will star ‘The Crown’ ...

Elizabeth returns England to Protestantism, but she does not enforce strict religious conformity and declares she does not want to 'make windows into men's souls'. Elizabeth chooses never to marry ...

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

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 ...

Elizabeth I is regarded as an early champion of the trade, while Raleigh was an early colonialist - and also reputed to have brought tobacco to England for the first time. Sir Keir admitted ...