When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...

England's first Norman king, the formidable William I, was born in 1028 at Falaise Castle. Wiliam was the illegitimate son of Robert 'the Devil' or the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy and his mistress ...

During the reign of his father Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder had taken an active role in his campaigns against the Vikings. On the great Alfred's death, the succession was disputed between Edward ...

Henry VI, with characteristic kindness, would not countenance any violence toward the newborn child or his mother. The wheel of Fortune turned once more for the House of York on the return of King ...

Eighth century England consisted of seven Anglo-Saxon sub-kingdoms that existed in a state of internecine warfare. Occasionally a king of one of the larger three kingdoms, Wessex, Mercia and ...

The Stuarts, that highly romantic but luckless dynasty, succeeded to the English throne on the death of the childless Tudor Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, in the person of James I and VI (1603-1625), son ...

(1) Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1751-1819 ( great-great-grandson of Henriette Anne Stuart, youngest daughter of Charles I.) The Jacobite CHARLES IV (2) Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia ...

Arguably one of the most effective Kings ever to wear the English crown and the first of the great Plantagenet dynasty, the future Henry II was born at Le Mans, Anjou on 5th March, 1133. He was the ...

The title of Prince of Wales was instituted in 1307 by King Edward I, when he invested his eldest son, Edward, as the first English Prince of Wales, at Lincoln. The traditional ostrich feather badge ...

John, Earl of Carrick, the illegitimate son of Robert II and Elizabeth Mure was born around 1340. He was legitimized in 1349, on the formal marriage of his parents and had been created Earl of Carrick ...

The de Bohun family, Earls of Hereford, were of Norman origin and came to England from Bohun in the Cotentin in Western Normandy with William the Conqueror. One Humphrey cum Barba (with the Beard), ...