Kings and queens

Princess Margaret attends the premiere of Captain Horatio Hornblower, Leicester Square, 1951. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images)

The Queen’s “rebel sister”: 8 facts about Princess Margaret

Photo of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles: Sun King Louis XIV’s ultimate power play

Edward the Confessor

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons

A portrait of Charles I. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Has history been unfair to Charles I?

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Elizabeth of York portrait

Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

Elizabeth I, shown in a portrait commemorating victory over the Armada

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

Henry VIII

Q&A What was the Sweating Sickness? And how did Henry VIII ‘self-isolate’?

A James Gillray cartoon: 'Germans eating sour-krout'.

Cabbages and kings: how Georgian royals brought continental food to the British menu

Henry V. (© Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry V and the battle of Agincourt

Anthonis Mor's portrait of Mary I from 1554

Mary Tudor: brutal but brilliant

Alison Weir discusses Jane Seymour on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

11 podcasts about royal women from history to listen to right now

Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their third son, Prince Edward, on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of royal mothers and childbirth

The reconcilliation between Thomas Becket and Henry II. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

From the handshake to the high-five: a brief history of gestures

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums