The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

The death of Pope Francis brings to an end a Papacy that made history in many ways. Francis was the first South American pope ...

Queen Elizabeth II made an historic visit to the Vatican just months after Pope Francis was elected but this meeting between ...

But when Harthacnut died after a short reign in 1042, the English selected Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother, Edward the Confessor, as king instead. He died in 1066, and we’re all very ...

In 1269 the remains of Edward the Confessor, England’s only canonized ... were murdered by their uncle Richard III. Opening the tomb of King John (d. 1216) might tell us if the villain of ...

She is often credited for holding up the monarchy through various crises, including the abdication of King Edward VIII and the ... her wedding bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in memory ...

Their children included Edward the Confessor, future king of England. Not including the brief period ... There he remained until the tomb and monument were destroyed, along with the cathedral, in the ...

A lively market town since 1207, when King John granted a Royal Market ... There is a memorial to these “sons of France” in St Edward the Confessor’s Church cemetery. Inside is a window ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...