A notorious tale of royal scandal claims King Eadwig abandoned his own coronation feast for a ménage à trois. But did it really happen – or was it a medieval smear campaign? Historian Katherine Weiker ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

William Adelin-the grandson of William the Conqueror and the heir to the thrones of England and Normandy-died at the age of ...

Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ‘King of all England’. One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and ...

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 ...

His grandson George III was the first in the line of German kings to be born in England, with English being his first language. He married the German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

As the great-grandson of Margaret Tudor ... was less than satisfactory and his designs to be the official 'King of Great Britain' were dashed. Regardless James proclaimed himself King of Great ...