Mary Adelaide was the daughter of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, the youngest surviving son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was therefore a first cousin of Queen ...

Caroline of Ansbach, destined to become the Queen Consort of George II, was born on 1st March 1683 in the small German state of Ansbach, she was the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg ...

According to his later confession, Perkin Warbeck was a native of the town of Tournai, who was born around 1474. He was the son of Jehan de Werbecque, a burgess, and Katherine de Faro. These details ...

Prince Ernest Augustus was born at Buckingham House, which is now part of Buckingham Palace, on 5 June 1771, he was the fifth son of King George III and his queen, Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz ...

Louise-Renée de Kérouaille, an ancestress of Princess Diana, was born in September 1649 into a noble but relatively poor Breton family, she the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de ...

The remarkable life of Nell Gwynne, most famous of the many mistresses of 'the Merry Monarch', Charles II, a classic rags to riches story, began on 2 February 1650. Nell was was the daughter of Thomas ...

Henry VII's father, Edmund Tudor, was the half-brother of Henry VI, born of an illicit union between Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V and Owen Tudor, her Welsh Clerk of the Wardrobe. Edmund ...

An exciting new project at Winchester Cathedral plans to examine the remains of several of England's Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. Its also believed the chests contain the remains of the Anglo-Saxon ...

Henry's father, Edmund Tudor, was the half-brother of Henry VI, born of an illicit union between Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V and Owen Tudor, her Welsh Clerk of the Wardrobe. The ...

Ethelred I, was born around 834 and like his father Ethelwulf, was a man of great piety, and had been brought up very religiously by his mother, Queen Osburh. Ethelred succeeded his brother Ethelbert ...

The half-timbered Queen's House, which faces Tower Green, was built in around 1530, in the reign of King Henry VIII, in a very different style than the rest of the Tower of London. Henry VIII probably ...