Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

In pictures: kings and queens through history

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.

Terror in Elizabethan England.

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?.

The real King John and the BBC in World War Two.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum.

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

Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history.

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy.

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period.

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

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes.

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

Bad King Richard III? “He was a product of his time. I’ve warmed to him” says relative Michael Ibsen

7 places that shaped the life of Richard III.

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

Richard III reburial special.

Photo of British coins

Q&AWhy do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?

Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel: Richard III’s heir who 'had a stronger claim to the throne than Henry VII'

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history.

Holbein portrait of Henry VIII

Q&ADid Henry VIII have any illegitimate male offspring?

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette.

Debating British monarchy.

Henry VIII and Henry the Young King.

Wallingford Castle

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

Henry VIII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime