Kings and royal princes were the rock stars of their time – with the rampant sex lives and mistresses to match. Too bad about the murder, blackmail and kidnapping along the way… Read more
Betrayal! How the disgraced Duke of Windsor plotted to usurp the young Princess Elizabeth while his brother, the King, lay seriously ill… Read more
Letter written by the Queen Mother 101 years ago is being auctioned after it was found to have been used as a bookmark Read more
Here come the brides! King George V's great-granddaughter marries an Australian girlfriend in a fun outdoor ceremony with a kiss in front of a handmade celebration banner Read more
Sandringham House is filled with the spirit of the King’s gentle – and very English – grandfather, George VI, writes HUGO VICKERS. No wonder Charles has gone there to recuperate… Read more
Prince Charles's aristocratic young man was asked to protect him from the bullies in Gordonstoun. But he ended up burning a corpse near the Ganges River Read more
Party-loving Princess Margaret was everything the Queen was not: artistic, rebellious, scandalous… Yet the sisters were close. And Margaret's death on this day in 2002 hit Elizabeth hard… Read more
Poor royals didn't go to the hospital – the hospitals came to them! And no one dared to use the word “cancer.” Today there has been a huge change in attitudes towards royal health, writes IAN LLOYD, and we are much better off for it… Read more
How the sudden death of a King shocked the British nation on this day – and brought a young Queen Elizabeth to the throne Read more
AN WILSON: This is a potential constitutional crisis that will place an enormous burden on William Read more