The Latest Breaking News from Charles II

Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats – a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As a result, by the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the English government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering domestic and international intelligence.

A phantasmal woman seen lurking outside a jury room is believed by some to be that of nurse Amelia Dyer, dubbed the Ogress of Reading.

In late April, comedian Jerry Seinfeld went on the New Yorker Radio Hour and re-opened the debate that refuses to die. While spruiking his debut film, Unfrosted, Seinfeld went on a tangent about how, he believes, political correctness has ruined comedy:

Seventeenth-century writer Aphra Behn (1640-89) made her name in London’s theatre world as the playwright who provided the Duke’s Theatre Company (the theatre company chartered by King Charles II at the start of the Restoration era) with some of its biggest hits. Now her Restoration play, The Amorous Prince, has…

A bronze cannon was found on the shipwreck of a warship that was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion in 1665

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake

British monarch, diagnosed with cancer, to attend Trooping the Colour with Queen Camilla, emphasizing unity and strength of the royal family.

Cameras expected to be trained on three Household Cavalry steeds that galloped through London in April

The Princess of Wales is ‘considering’ an appearance