Richard II believed that English kings were made by ... and a golden “coronation portrait” of the crowned king on his throne, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We first see Jonathan Bailey’s magnetic Richard II picked out by a shaft of white light against a dark ...

When he acceded to the throne, his dukedom was united to the Crown, but even today the Lancastrian estates are separately administered for the monarch as duke of Lancaster. Richard came to the throne ...

The Hollow Crown is a stunning new series of filmed adaptations of four of Shakespeare’s best-loved history plays; Richard II, Henry IV parts I & 2 and Henry V on BBC Two this summer. The Hollow ...