Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Almost 500 years ago, a princess called Elizabeth became Queen of England. People were worried. It was unusual to be ...

Why did she stay? Royal experts explain why Queen Elizabeth never gave up the throne. Why didn’t Queen Elizabeth ever step ...

Queen Elizabeth is being remembered by a leader in the Church of England. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today show Friday, one day Buckingham Palace announced ...

This research project focuses on portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England, specifically, portraits commissioned after she inherited the throne in 1558 at the age of twenty-five. Elizabeth I is one of ...

as the supreme governor of the Church of England, you don’t do civil ceremonies." Even though Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip felt it was inappropriate for them to attend a civil wedding ...

Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen of England on January 15 ... the ceremony involved being anointed with holy oil, putting God’s own mark on the ruler: it conferred the ultimate authority ...

What could be a better memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, than a pod of faintly psychedelic ...

Only 25 years old when King George VI died, Queen ... Elizabeth Visits the Smithsonian National Museum of American History President and Mrs. Ford with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip National ...