British queens

From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Anne Boleyn, these queens shaped British history...

Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

Annie Gray “For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter. (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

Mary, Queen of Scots

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Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

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Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen?

Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History explorer: Catholic resistance to Elizabeth I

A portrait of Henry VII, the first Tudor king of England, by Michiel Sittow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Monarchy timeline: from the Middle Ages to the modern era

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, after their marriage in 1947. (Corbis via Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip: 8 milestones in their marriage

Elizabeth II

12 surprising facts about Queen Elizabeth II

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The lost heirs of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on Katherine of Aragon’s failed pregnancies

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe