Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 ...

Also, a glove worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation in ... were crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire on June 22, 1911.) "This superb exhibition will showcase ...

It has long been said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire,” referring to the United Kingdom’s colonies around the globe. Will the death of Queen Elizabeth II trigger further ...

When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne in 1953, the British Empire was collapsing. It was collapsing in the sense that all the countries that we represent were leaving the British Empire or had left.

Apparently, Queen Elizabeth didn’t hold a grudge when it came to Leith’s tea snafu. In 2021, Leith was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to food ...

Queen Elizabeth’s death at the age of 96 ends ... Like many other people around the world whose families fought the British Empire, I reject its mythology of benevolence and enlightenment ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...

The Scottish actor became an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009 ... award given to him in 2009 by the late Queen Elizabeth II as part of her birthday honors ...