And now at the age of 91, Dame Joan Collins is taking on an even more controversial character: Wallis Simpson.

Gloucestershire, with large swathes of its landscape covered by the Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty (AONB), has seen wars of ...

Michael Haynes's excavator had to be pulled from a trench at Walton Heath Golf Club in Tadworth, Surrey, which was once captained by King Edward VIII and included Sir Winston Churchill among its ...

Yathees Kumar, the archaeologist, suggests that even though the continuity of human settlement in the area is not recorded, ...

Archaeologists pinpoint the site of King Harold’s elite residence, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, using a surprising clue: ...

Ever the traditionalists, the Brits didn’t take the King’s playboy affairs lightly, and Edward the Eighth duly handed in his resignation. The Instrument of Abdication is the formal name for ...

Read our beginners' guide to the turbulent events of the Tudor era before seeing Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical *SIX* in ...

AS you drive into the area west of Dumfries even today, there is a sense of other-worldliness as you proceed into ...

Henry VIII was ... birth to a son, Edward. Jane died shortly after the birth of her son, following complications arising from childbirth. When Henry died in 1547, he was buried alongside Jane.

In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the ... Death was often cruel and included crucifixion, drowning at sea, burial alive, beating to death, and impalement ...

Some even lived at the courts of King Henry VIII ... Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’ lived in Roman York in the 4th century. She was buried with expensive items such ...