It feels like the English monarchy has been around forever, but has it? Let's try to pinpoint where it all began. Who was the ...

It is part of a series of events across the summer to celebrate 1,100 years since Athelstan became the first King of England. Councillor Campbell Ritchie, head of the project's organising ...

Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ‘King of all England’. One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and ...

Edward the First of England was used to getting his own way ... he smashed up Scotland. Edward was a King who had fought wars all his life – he had just conquered Wales - but he didn’t ...

Queen Elizabeth was the first and only monarch to consistently ... worth about £80bn in circulation at present. Bank of England The King's cypher will also appear on the notes The Bank of England ...

First published in 1925, A ... volume will assure its continued usefulness to students of the laws of late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman kings of England.

But how long ago was the British monarchy established? Which ruler can rightfully call themselves the first King of England? You might assume that this would be an easy question to answer ...