For the Anglophiles among us, how splendid was the recent coronation of King Charles III? All that royal pomp and circumstance calls to mind that the last time a King Charles sat on the English throne ...

Prince Charles will wear two crowns on his coronation day, while Camilla will break tradition by recycling one from the past. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The royal family’s crowns bear the weight of the ...

It may seem obvious that King Charles III kept his birth name as his regnal name once he ascended the British throne upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. But an anonymous sourced once ...

The new king of England will reign as King Charles III – a moniker he once reportedly considered rejecting to avoid links to the bloody and turbulent history of his two royal namesakes. His majesty ...

Born at the end of a long line of inbreeding, Charles II suffered ill-health for his entire, albeit short, life. Badly disfigured, he was believed unfit to rule and during his life, most of the power ...

The first sparked a civil war and was beheaded; the second was known as the “Merry Monarch,” a party animal The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ruling monarch, has heralded the ...