Everyone knows that King Charles I was the least successful of England’s many Kings and Queens. The idea is traditional, well-argued, and practically undisputed. The view that Charles’s rule was a ...

King Charles stepped out in Lancaster for a ceremonial visit as he continues cancer treatment and gears up to lead the royal ...

Why 1649 was a time of bewildering transformation. We killed a king and created a republic. It was all over by 1660, but ...

King Charles and Prince Harry face a pivotal moment in their fractured relationship as the King’s cancer diagnosis adds ...

Not since the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) had England been so horribly divided. Contemporaries described this time as a “world turned upside down.” Charles lost the war and — in an ...

Civil wars were waged in England from 1642 to 1646 and again in 1648. Charles also put the crown in debt, spending a lot of money to commission artists and buying a collection of paintings by ...

Finally so far as this book is concerned-Victor Amadeus II. married Anna Maria of Orleans, granddaughter of Charles I. of England. It is with this marriage, according to Mme. Vitelleschi ...