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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip after her coronation in 1953 (Wikimedia Commons). After Queen Elizabeth II took the throne following the death of her father King George VI in 1952, the coins of ...

Of the numerous books inspired by the recent crisis in Britain, this one by the Editor of the New Statesman and Nation is the best. It is brief, it is candid without being sensational, and it is ...

ANDREW KING, born 1940, educated at Stockport Grammar School and Oxford, describes himself as Catholic in religion and fringe-anarchist in politics. He is now training for the priesthood at the ...

In a surprising move last week, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, announced their intention to “step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family.” They further noted ...

It has been fascinating to look at the stranglehold the long tradition of monarchy still has on the English imagination in recent weeks. To this day, they still enact all the tottering rituals of ...

Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series, 2004-2006, by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy from the Saxon period to modern times.