Eighty-years-ago today, the then-11-year-old Princess Elizabeth watched the build-up and excitement of the Coronation of her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth – and chronicled it for ...

Queen Elizabeth is surrounded by loved ones in her final resting place. Following her state funeral and committal service on September 19, the late monarch was buried the King George VI Memorial ...

When she married the future King George V, she was set on a path to become the Queen Consort of all Britain. Sadly, their coronation wasn’t the “happily ever after” you’d expect it to be ...

Monarchs strive to make their mark on history, but King George V could never have imagined that, almost 90 years after his ...

Third in line to the throne, it seemed unlikely that Princess Elizabeth would be Queen. However, shortly after the death of George V, the new King - her uncle Edward VIII - dramatically abdicated ...

The queen's love of horses has long been well-known. Elizabeth was given her first pony by her grandfather King George V, according to the royal family's website. The Shetland, called Peggy ...

King George V, second son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ... in Westminster Abbey in May 1937 and lived to see her elder granddaughter proclaimed as Queen Elizabeth II in February 1952. Queen ...

Queen Elizabeth was the eldest child of King George VI, who became monarch in 1936 after his brother King Edward VIII abdicated the Throne. During the final years of King George VI's life ...

Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December ... The coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth was held on 12th May 1937. This was ...

The custom dates back to 1917 when King George V began sending telegrams to centenarians. During Queen Elizabeth's reign, approximately 1.3 million cards were sent to mark birthdays and ...