Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Spencer are the guests everyone wants at their party this summer. Julia Llewellyn Smith meets them ...

Archaeology & History Westminster Abbey Reveals Surprising Connection to First Holy Roman Emperor A Medieval silk bag that once held Henry III's seal has connections to Charlemagne's burial shroud.

Queen Camilla toured the site of a new building at Westminster Abbey which aims to transform the welcome offered to millions of visitors. Camilla is patron of the £13 million project to create ...

The Westminster Abbey plaque itself is made from Huddlestone, a cream-colored stone quarried in Yorkshire, the area of northern England where the sisters lived and wrote the books that would ...

Specialist abseilers have conducted a survey of the West Towers at Westminster Abbey. Adam Garre and and Lewis Head checked the condition of the stone on the central London landmark on Friday. The ...

Westminster Abbey has the highest Gothic vault in England, spanning 102 feet. According to westminster-abbey.org, the ceiling was made to seem higher by making the aisles narrow.

Inside Westminster Abbey, where kings and queens have been crowned since 1066, around 2,200 people were there to witness Charles's robe of state be removed, before he was shielded and anointed ...

The floor area covers 32,000 square feet, and the tallest part of the abbey is the West Towers, which rise 225 feet, 4 inches. The interior height of the Nave is 101 feet, 8 inches.

Westminster Abbey was briefly referenced in Roger Miller’s No. 1 hit, “ England Swings ” in 1964. The song, written and sung by Miller, mentions famous landmarks like the abbey and Big Ben.

According to the Westminster Abbey Press Office, the extreme exterior length of the abbey is 530 feet, while the interior length is 511 feet, 6 inches.

Almost 1,000 years since Westminster Abbey came to be, it remains a living place for worship, music and pilgrimage. Situated in Westminster in London, which for hundreds of years has been a place of ...