The heady days of James VI court have been captured in a new scent created for a major exhibition on the Stuart monarch who ...

Following the funeral Mass led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista, the coffin of Pope Francis was carried through the streets to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in central Rome. The late pontiff had ...

Well, the most secretive royal building just got a bit less secretive. As of this week, the 500-year-old palace – for centuries the residence of the reigning monarch – opened its doors to the general ...

Pictured: The National Symphony Orchestra performs a modern re-telling of the St. John Passion in an Irish Premiere by James ...

The Chinese porcelain dishes and figurines that first arrived in Europe by sea in the 16th century, brought by traders ... part thanks to collectors like Queen Mary II, who was by turns credited ...

Rydal Mount was originally a small 16th-century cottage ... including a rare portrait of Dorothy and Wordsworth’s letter to Queen Victoria refusing the job of Poet Laureate (which he later ...

At the 16th-century Quirinal Palace ... King Charles and Queen Camilla pose for a portrait at Villa Wolkonsky, in Rome. Picture: Getty Images for Buckingham Palace via AP Charles has visited ...

There are portraits of the late Sinn Fein leader ... “We looked at a lot of 15th- and 16th-century Afghan Persian and Moghul rugs, our Afghan colourist advisers who have got a great eye was ...

When working for Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, she covered up that queen’s affair with ... they probably called “Crummel” in 16th-century pronunciation, was “complex ...

The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.