The “Half King” Tanaghrisson ... Britain in the American War for Independence. Ironically, this meant the French were now supporting their old foe, George Washington—apparently willing ...
Then, during the Second World War, King George and his wife Elizabeth and their children (the future Queen) Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret epitomized stoicism in the face of the ...
George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During ...
Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops already in America in crushing the rebellion. The Revolutionary War lasted ...
In PEOPLE's exclusive excerpt from royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's new book, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy, the last crowning of a king is revisited Simon ...
The greatest challenge of George V's reign came with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The King and Queen worked tirelessly throughout, and when the war had ended the King supported ...
The mystery of the decapitated head of a King George V statue has resurfaced after ... for Australian soldiers who died fighting in World War I. Meanwhile, in Canberra, the words “The colony ...
Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December 1895 on the Sandringham estate. On the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in December ...