Brooke N. Newman - Author, The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas In 1823, 17 enslaved people were sold at an auction in Barbados in the name of ...

In 1649, the British monarchy ceased when Charles I was executed, and the office of king was abolished by Parliament under the English Interregnum. A republic followed, and yet just over a decade ...

ideastream: Luke Reader, a teaching fellow in the Department of History, described the role of the British monarchy from its controversial past to its relevancy today, following the passing of Queen ...

Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...

Three miles south of Windsor Castle, in the western exurbs of London, stands a 25-ton equestrian statue of King George III, cast from old cannons in the decade after his death in 1820. Dressed as ...

As King Charles visits Kenya, a former British colony, it is worth asking why the monarchy has survived when many others across Europe have fallen. At home in the British Isles, the monarchy remains ...

Britain’s monarchy is finely tuned to public sentiment as, after all, it holds prestige but not power. That's been evident with the disgrace of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped of his ...

When it comes to who Britain’s longest-reigning monarch was, history tells of centuries of stability, crisis, and change. From medieval kings to modern queens, the longest reigning monarch in the UK's ...