It has been said that Edward II was the great Edward I's only failure. It is true to say that never was there a son less like his father. A thoroughly flawed jewel in England's crown, he failed to ...

Prince George Frederick Augustus, the eldest son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was born at 7.45 p.m. on 12th August, 1762 at St. James' Palace, London. The first heir born to a ...

Edward had accompanied his father into exile in Normandy in 1016. Brought up in Normandy from the age of twelve, he had acquired the tastes and outlook of a Norman and was extremely fond of his Norman ...

The Tower of London, that formidable symbol of England's national heritage, served as a royal residence as well as a prison in the medieval period. The monarch traditionally spent the night at the ...