It's rare to read a biographical work whose author is so contemptuous of his subject as Hasegawa is of Nicholas. And yet the author, a specialist on 20th-century Russian history, seems even more ...

Queen Camilla opted for a sentimental brooch as she attended the Commonwealth Day Reception at Marlborough House. The royal was beaming as she joined King Charles to meet with guests for the annual ...

In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

In the meantime, the assassinations started piling up. In 1904, Governor-General Nikolai Bobrikov was the first to be taken down by the Finns. Soon after, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, a relative ...

In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children—Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei—were executed. However, the grisly details and location of their final resting place ...

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip spent over seven decades together before their passing. The couple also had a well-kept secret. Like the wedding rings of Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton, the ...

Jews living in York are besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather ...

The mitochondrial DNA analysis was employed by forensic scientists to facilitate the authentication of the bones as belonging to Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children. Additionally, ...