A notorious tale of royal scandal claims King Eadwig abandoned his own coronation feast for a ménage à trois. But did it ...

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 ...

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

Last week in Fontainebleau, where the Kings of France once hunted in the ... On trial were Jean Charles Millet, pudgy grandson of the late great Jean null (The Angelus) Millet, and deaf Paul ...

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 ...

Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...

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 ...