When we think of the Renaissance era in Western Europe our thoughts generally tend towards the opulence and wealth of ruling ...

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...

He reigned for nine years with his Danish-born consort Queen Alexandra – an elegant woman whose taste in dresses and ...

Sir — It seems tax evasion is as old as civilisation itself. A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus. The case of ...

Pope Francis, the popular Roman Catholic pontiff who advocated a more compassionate papacy and a less traditionalist approach than his predecessor, died Monday after battling a series of health ...

Pope Francis, who was 88, was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... to pray for the soul of the man who so became a holy father for us all.” Bishop Mark Davies ...

From Princess Diana to Princess Grace to Marie Antoinette, certain royals have influenced fashion for the ages.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the senior Vatican official who announced Pope Francis' death on Monday morning, will serve as the interim manager of the Vatican until a new pope is elected, according to ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, officially announced the pope’s death in a video message. “At 7:35 this morning, the bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house ...

In the 1950s, she was reportedly still finding her footing. According to writer James Pope-Hennessy, who interviewed the Queen in 1957 while researching a biography of her grandmother Queen Mary ...

The Handbook of Prayers Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry, poor, banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and ...