Royalty

Boudica, the queen of the Iceni tribe, remains one of Britain’s most iconic historical figures, a symbol of resistance, independence,…

Isabella I of Castile was born on 22 April 1451 in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, in the Kingdom of…

Hatshepsut was born in 1507 BCE in Thebes, Egypt, into the powerful 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. She became…

Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1122 in Poitiers, France. She became one of the most powerful and influential women…

Genghis Khan was born as Temujin in 1162 near the Onon River in what is now Mongolia. He would go…

Queen Victoria, one of the most enduring and influential monarchs in British history, was born Alexandrina Victoria on 24 May…

Catherine the Great, born Sophia Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst on May 2nd, 1729, in Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), was…

Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudor monarchs, reigned over England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her…

King George III, the longest-reigning British monarch (until recently surpassed by Queen Elizabeth II), was born on June 4th, 1738,…

Lady Margaret Beaufort, a powerful figure during the Wars of the Roses and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, was born…

Alexandrina Victoria, who would go on to become Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was…

Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, was born Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov on May 18, 1868, in Tsarskoye Selo, near…

Margaret of Valois, also known as Queen Margot, was a French princess born on May 14, 1553, at the Château…

Have you ever pondered the life of Cleopatra, the last active ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemaic Kingdom? Born in 69 BC,…

Queen Mary II, a co-reigning monarch who helped usher in a period of relative stability in England, was born on…

Queen Elizabeth II, a symbol of stability and tradition for much of the 20th and 21st centuries, reigned as the…