Kings and queens

Elizabeth I

Deadly Rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

Elizabeth I, queen of England and Ireland, c1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Elizabeth I

Nicholas, Tatiana, Olga and Anastasia in Livadia, Crimea in 1913. (Photo courtesy of Romanov100)

In pictures: The Romanovs in colour

Detail from the Bayeux tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

10 medieval dates you need to know

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

Happier days: The tsar and his family pose for a portrait in c1910, years before he was swept from power and murdered. Maria, Olga and Tatiana (left to right) are at the back. Alexandra and Nicholas are seated with Alexey at their feet. Anastasia is far right. (Photo by Getty Images)

The last days of the Romanovs

From The Library

Elizabeth I, shown in a portrait commemorating victory over the Armada. (Photo by: Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

My history hero: Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

From The Library

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

From The Library

The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

9 of Britain’s best castles

Portrait of the future Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) aged 14. Illustration after a picture in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge show their newly-born daughter and their second child Princess Charlotte, to the media outside St Mary's Hospital in central London, in May 2015. (Photo by LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)

5 momentous royal births

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen

Diana, Princess Of Wales, Prince William And Prince Harry visit Thorpe Park amusement park. (Photo by Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty Images)

How to raise a royal… with Tracy Borman

Richard I. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

8 facts about Richard the Lionheart