Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

Queen Elizabeth II has been crowned the most popular British monarch of all time, according to a new poll. The late monarch ...

Influenza took Mary’s life in 1558, and because she had no heir, Elizabeth at last became the queen of England, Wales, and Ireland. She was imprisoned for associating with a rebellion against ...

Elizabeth was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1554 following a failed rebellion, of which she claimed no knowledge. In November 1558, after the death of Mary I, Elizabeth succeeded to ...

At the centre was Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The Virgin Queen’ and the latter part of her reign (from 1558-1603) has been referred to by some historians as a ‘golden age.’ However, is this an ...

When Elizabeth I ascended to the English throne in 1558, she rejected Philip II, Emperor of Spain, as a suitor. Thirty years later, he would lead a huge invasion force against her, seeking to ...

Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor monarchs of England and Ireland, reigning from 1558 until her death in 1603. Charles I was the second Stuart King of England, Scotland and Ireland who came to ...

Elizabeth I reigned from 1558 until her death in 1603 as the last Tudor monarch. Dubbed "The Virgin Queen," she never married — a decision shaped by both personal and political reasons.