On March 24, 2015, a Germanwings plane carrying 150 people, including German high school students, crashed in the French Alps ...

Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death in 1603. Here are 15 things you might not know about Good Queen Bess. She very nearly wasn’t queen at all.

In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat. Elizabeth was briefly ...

In the 16th century, sugar was imported from British territories in the Caribbean. Since it was an expensive commodity, it [… ...

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps the greatest. Her forces defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion, she reinstated Protestantism and forged an ...

After Mary wed Henry and welcomed son James, an heir to both Scotland and England’s throne, Henry conspired with his father and Mary’s male council to take the power for himself. “Elizabeth ...

Her father died just a week after her birth. A fervent Roman Catholic and a claimant to the English Crown Mary was a great danger to her cousin Elizabeth I. When Mary fled to England after her army ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles the last four years of the statesman's life Meilan Solly Elizabeth I ...