Privileged, precise, and punishingly beautiful, Elisabeth of Bavaria rose to become Empress consort of the Austrian Empire at the height of its powers, and has remained one of the nation’s most ...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria remains a figure of fascination 125 years on ... she refused to have taken after the age of 30. Queen Alexandra, the favourite monarch you forgot: ahead of a new ...

Lord Charles O'Hagan, a godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II and a Conservative peer, died at the North Devon Hospital last ...

Queen Elizabeth II was just 25 when she acceded to the throne. She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, making her one of Britain’s longest serving monarchs. Photo: The official picture of ...