In Spain, they’re cutting down vast forests in order to build the Armada, with which they intend to impose that country’s grim Catholic will on Protestant England. In a glum castle, Mary Queen of ...

Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth” sequel was awash with blues — and not by accident. “We used color to tell the story,” explains costume designer Alexandra Byrne, an Oscar nominee for her work on the ...

From political genius to cultural icon, Elizabeth I led England into a golden age of art, exploration, and empire.

I was thrilled when a glamorous woman in a satin magenta gown asked me to dance while feting Elizabeth's Sutton's 34th birthday along with my husband Mike and our son Michael, my ubiquitous partners ...

At the head of England’s emergence as an empire was the legendary Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII and no stranger to scandal. Her power led to a relatively ...

Queen Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is arguably the most significant female ruler in history. She reigned over England for 45 years and brought about an age of prosperity to ...