Kings and queens

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• A royal flush: Coronation gift guide
  One for the history books
• Long Live the King! Coronations throughout history
  Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, we look at the history of British coronations
• The reign of Queen Elizabeth II: A timeline
  Key dates in the life of the Queen, 1926 - 2022
• Queen Elizabeth II: A giant among British royals
  An illustrious and progressive legacy
• Ten things you may not know about Princess Mary
  Britain’s first modern princess broke gender norms and redefined the role
• Love rats: Three of England’s lustful kings
  Meet the kings who would slide into your DMs and never call you back
• Why was Edward VIII’s abdication a necessity?
  Was Edward VIII’s relationship with Wallis Simpson the only reason for his abdication?
• Mary, Queen of Scots in seven actresses
  We can’t stop telling the tragic story of Mary, Queen of Scots – take a peek at who’s played her over the years
• The House of York: Edmund of Langley and his children
  Long before Richard III, how did the House of York come about?
• The House of Lancaster in seven people
  The people who defined the House of Lancaster before Henry VII
• A haverin’ history of Mary, Queen of Scots
  Norman Ferguson discusses Mary, Queen of Scots in his new book, A Haverin’ History of Scotland.
• Royal engagement rings through the centuries
  How royal engagement rings have evolved over the last 200 years
• Infamous royal marriages
  Looking back through less-than-fairytale royal marriages
• Duke of Clarence: A title through time
  Creations of the Duke of Clarence title, traditionally awarded to junior members of the British royal family
• Charles II and Catherine of Braganza: A loveless marriage?
  Charles II’s marriage to Catherine of Braganza was childless, but was it also loveless?
• The Eleanor Crosses: Longshanks’ love set in stone
  How a grieving Edward I had crosses built in memory of Eleanor of Castile
• Great Scot, it’s Robert the Bruce!
  A look at a rather different man to the one we vaguely think we know
• Richard III, the missing princes, and bones discovered in the Tower
  Speculation surrounds the discovery of bones in 1674
• A beginner’s guide to the Babington Plot
  Mary Queen of Scots’ final conspiracy against Elizabeth I
• King Arthur in history and legend
  Was King Arthur a real person? Of course he was.
• Being a Scottish monarch is not good for your health
  Authors John and Noreen Hamilton reveal the bad luck faced by many Scottish monarchs
• The moment Princess Elizabeth became queen
  Elizabeth left the UK a princess, but returned a queen
• King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson
  The infamous romance that forced King Edward VIII’s abdication from the throne
• Mary, Queen of Scots’ great escape
  Mary Stuart’s escape from Lochleven
• The top ten longest-reigning British monarchs
  Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch in September 2015
• Henry V: Cold-hearted ruler or virtuous king?
  A look at the king 600 years on
• Richard I: A mighty king or a menacing tyrant?
  The ‘Lionheart’ king that has been painted as a crusader hero
• Five little-known facts about Queen Mary I
  Things you (probably) didn’t already know about ‘Bloody Mary’
• The betrayal of Richard III
  Considering the evidence for and against Richard III as a murderous tyrant
• William the Conqueror: Crowned at Christmas
  Simon Schama captures the nervous William of Normandy as he was crowned at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066