Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen of England on January 15, 1559 – the day John Dee had determined was the most auspicious of ...

the King's crown has a rounded dome while Queen Elizabeth II's has arches either side of the central cross. The King's grandfather, George VI, also used the Tudor Crown for his cypher when he ...

How did a child written off by the court become one of England's most iconic monarchs?

Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

NARRATOR: Then, childless, Queen Elizabeth I died. And with her ended than legendary House of Tudor. Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) would not have expected to become queen. Her younger brother - Edward ...

who interviewed the Queen in 1957 while researching a biography of her grandmother Queen Mary, Elizabeth came across as somewhat uneasy. In her book Elizabeth & Philip, historian Tessa Dunlop ...

Tudor, Stuart, Hanoverian, along with those more recent from the houses of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Windsor – that could serve as inspiration for the Queen Elizabeth Memorial to be built in St ...

But the association of hot cross buns with Easter is largely due to the actions of Queen Elizabeth I. During Tudor times, the Queen commanded spiced buns could only be made by commercial bakers on ...