Originally constructed from 1696 as a grand hunting lodge, Schönbrunn Palace later became the ... and vast elaborate gardens comparable to King Louis XIV of France's palace at Versailles.

U.S. News Insider Tip: In summer, the palace hosts weekend fountain shows ... you might be surprised to learn that King Louis XIV's extravagant former residence had pretty humble-ish beginnings.

Many of the enduring myth about Marie Antoinette seem to focus food - like that "let them eat cake" comment. But what did the ...

A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities ...

The family's origins trace back to Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a Marshal of France under Napoleon, who was elected Crown Prince of Sweden and later became King Charles XIV John of Sweden.

"Why, yes. Yes, I am." Robert De Niro is back in the mobster business, playing both real-life 1950s mafia rivals Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in director Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights ...

In the dynamic realm of performance and the arts, particularly within the highly-commercialized sphere of show business, numerous actors experience a meteoric rise to stardom. Upon achieving this ...

In 1604, a group of English Catholics, angered by James I's failure to relax the penal laws against their co-religionists, hatched a plot to blow up the king and parliament by igniting gunpowder ...

King Charles III was born at Buckingham Palace on November 14 ... Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Prince Harry is married to Meghan Markle and they have two children, Archie and Lilibet.

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...