Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

With around 63 monarchs spanning over 1,200 years, the UK have been sharing their thoughts on their favourite of the historic ...

As the daughter of King Henry VIII, whose six marriages reshaped the monarchy and led to England’s break from the Catholic Church, Elizabeth may have been wary of matrimony. Queen Elizabeth ...

Henry VIII’s father, Henry VII, was the founder of the Tudor dynasty. He took the throne in 1485. Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and had a large family with her. Henry VII was succeeded by ...

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She didn't expect to be Queen. She was third in line to the throne. Both her brother and sister died without having children so Elizabeth became Queen.

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...

which belonged to Elizabeth I and was found in a church in Herefordshire. Prof Borman says history is as vital a subject as ever because "human history doesn't change very much". "Henry VIII's ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

Sold by auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull for £32,700 - four times more than the estimated price - the manuscript is said to link directly to the queen's life.

The letter to Queen Elizabeth is signed by the Earl of Leicester ... Meanwhile, a letter written and signed by Henry VIII’s elder daughter Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland, known as Bloody ...