A love for music appears to run in Taylor Swift's family — the royal family that is. The 34-year-old international pop star ...
William and his wife Mary were crowned joint monarchs of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689. Their accession, known as the ‘Glorious Revolution’, marked an important transition towards ...
The machine was designed at the request of the French king Louis XIV —the monarch who commissioned Versailles, also known as the Sun King. His and his successors’ courts are mainly remembered ...
In her first public remarks since a confrontation at the White House with President Trump over transgender athletes, Maine’s Governor Janet Mills said she had never before heard a president ...
STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...
In 1665, there were only seventy houses in Quebec. In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters - arrived in New France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in ...
In the history of France, there was a prisoner during the reign of King Louis XIV, who was more known as the "Man in the Iron Mask." ...
In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...
Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread ...