A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

ideastream: Luke Reader, a teaching fellow in the Department of History, described the role of the British monarchy from its controversial past to its relevancy today, following the passing of Queen ...

The Queen who restored the reputation of the British monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles.

It was a changing of the guard unprecedented in British history. No monarch had sat on the throne longer than Queen Elizabeth II, and no heir had spent more time in waiting than King Charles III. The ...

The British royal family gathers on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour, the Queen's annual birthday parade, on June 08, 2019. Reporter In his new memoir, Spare, Prince Harry ...

The annals of human history reveal how agonizingly difficult it is to govern people. Human governance remains one of history’s unsolved mysteries. Monarchs, aristocrats, oligarchs, and chieftains have ...

David Dimbleby stars in new BBC series, What's the Monarchy for?, in which he questions the role and power of the sovereign. The former Question Time host has spent much of his career commentating on ...