The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded. His mother, Mary ...

A 54-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash Saturday evening on Queen Mary Highway near the Market Supermarket on St. Croix, according to the Virgin Islands Police ...

The heady days of James VI court have been captured in a new scent created for a major exhibition on the Stuart monarch who ...

Uncover the layers of British culture through a quiz that tests your knowledge on everything from historical figures to culinary delights. How much do you really know?

A San Francisco drag queen group called the Sisters of Perpetual ... attendees to come dressed in drag as "Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary." The event’s invitation poster includes a depiction of ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Kaylee McKeown crushed would-be challenger Regan Smith in a triumphant defence of her 100 metres backstroke title at the Paris Games on Tuesday to join a parade of Australian ...

A casket which may have led to Mary, Queen of Scots being beheaded is to go on display in Stirling for the first time. Mary Stuart inherited the throne at just six weeks old, but was forced to ...

Imagine their surprise when they learned that Mary was dating a Danish prince! When Queen Mary of Denmark was born in a quaint Tasmanian hospital in February 1972, no one could predict that she would ...

It is an object that is believed to have contained letters used to implicate Mary, Queen of Scots in the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley. Now a rare silver casket believed to have belonged to ...

After inheriting the jewel following the death of Queen Mary, Elizabeth II grew fond of the brooch later in her reign, wearing it for an Irish state banquet in 2014 and to meet with then Secretary ...

Early in her reign, Queen Elizabeth II decided Maundy money should not just be distributed to the people of London and began travelling to various cathedrals or abbeys. The red purse symbolises ...