British queens

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

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court.

Witch trials and feuding queens.

Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum.

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts.

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy.

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?.

7 places you (probably) didn’t know shaped the life of Anne Boleyn.

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette.

Wallingford Castle

History explorer: Stephen and Matilda's fight for the throne.

History quiz - Queens of England.

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

The hidden lives of Henry VIII's six wives.

Portrait of a young Queen Victoria, c1850, by F Winterhalter

How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations.

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle.

Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask.

The mourning of Queen Victoria.

Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen.

Queen Matilda.

The spies of Queen Elizabeth I.

Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda.

The LibraryThe battle of Quebec and the jealousy of a queen.

Inside Pompeii and a date with Elizabeth I.