Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

The letter is on the move as part of the National Library of Scotland’s centenary celebrations. Written six hours before she was led to her death, the last letter penned by Mary Queen of Scots is now ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, ...

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A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

On February 8, 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq) opened. In 1960, the ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...