Royal history

Hulu's "The Great" offers an irreverent, ahistorical take on the Russian empress' life. This is the real history behind the period comedy

She was just 5th in the line of succession, but a series of historical vagaries put the princess on the world’s most powerful throne.

01. Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the British Empire proposed to her future husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha because according to tradition a man couldn’t propose to the queen. #queens #women #female #kings #popular #famous #history #propose

One hundred and twenty years ago, the Romanov royal dynasty hosted the most extravagant and eccentric costume ball in the history of the Russian Empire. It was also the last.

Before the revolution, before the war, when the Romanov's celebrated a dynastic marriage, there was much extravagant traditio...

King Henry VIII had six wives, but none of them have captured the public's imagination like the second, Anne Boleyn.

In 1857, Queen Victoria posed for the first royal photo ever, and the world promptly fell in love with photographing royals. Here are some of the more memorable, yet less widely seen, photos of the royal family throughout the years.

Andrew Graham-Dixon on how full-length portraits have been used in history to boost the status of nobles, kings and statesmen