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 ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous monarch and charts the path of a charismatic, cunning figure. As Shakespeare depicts the king’s reign from June 1483 to ...

Three of their seven children survived into adulthood. In March 1603, Elizabeth died and James became king of England and Ireland in a remarkably smooth transition of power. After 1603 he only ...