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 ...

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.