The MacAlpin dynasty, which ruled Scotland throughout the Dark Ages, united the warring races of Picts and Scots as one nation. Our section on this dynasty includes the reign of Kenneth I himself and ...

The House of Plantagenet had its origins in a cadet branch of the original counts of Anjou, the dynasty established by Fulk I of Anjou at the beginning of the tenth century. The Plantagenet dynasty ...

Edgar Atheling, the last surviving male member of the ancient Royal House of Wessex, was born in Hungary circa 1051. Edgar's father, 'Edward the Exile' was the eldest son of Edmund II known as ...

Charles eldest son, James Crofts was born on 9 April 1649 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his 18-year-old father was living in exile following the execution of Charles I. His mother was Charles ...

Hywel Dda 'the Good' is one of the outstanding figures in early Welsh history. Hywel was born in around 880, the son of King Cadell of Seisyllwg. Cadell had been appointed as King of Seisyllwg by his ...

On the death of King Edward the Confessor in 1065, he was buried at the newly completed Westminster Abbey and his posthumous reputation came to be revered. His remains were not, however, allowed to ...

Matilda of Flanders was born circa 1031, the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adele of France, who was the daughter of Robert II of France and Constance of Arles. She was also a descendant ...

The Atrebates share their name with a tribe in pre-Roman Gaul (France). Their territory in Britain originally stretched from what is now present day West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. At the time ...

The House of Tudor took England's throne through victory over Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Its founder, the Lancastrian Henry VII laid down the ...

Queen Victoria was known as the grandmother of Europe. She and her husband, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha had nine children, who presented her with forty grandchildren. Eight of whom sat on the thrones ...

The third son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, the future William IV was born at Buckingham House on 21st August 1765 and christened William Henry. The young William was brought up ...

Prior to 1788, King George had informed his daughters that he would take them to Hanover and find them suitable husbands, but remarked, "I cannot deny that I have never wished to see any of them marry ...