When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the ...

British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so ...

Kingdoms are a fascinating thing to study. For most of human history, people gathered around kingdoms to provide protection ...

The U.S.-based founder of a gin has created a cocktail in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who took the throne 73 years ago. The ...

Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu announced that a team of lawyers contracted by the government managed to block the ...

Queen Rania of Jordan made a trip to Italy on Monday for the World’s Summit on Children’s Rights at the Vatican. The royal ...

Mr Kingston, who was married to Lady Gabriella Kingston, the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, died from a ...

A series recreates the tumultuous nine-year courtship of the Norwegian kings. When Olaf V's son met Sonja, a commoner, in ...

On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain’s King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by ...

Joan Collins is to play Wallis Simpson in a biopic about the American socialite whose relationship with the British King led ...