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Queen Elizabeth II has died, surrounded by her closest family, aged 96 at her home in Balmoral just a few months after celebrating her amazing 70 years on the throne

Nearly 170 years of Tyneside history will draw to a close after a planning application to build new homes on the derelict site of the former Hawthorn Leslie shipyard in Hebburn was approved

As Pakistan celebrates its 75th anniversary, Dr Mirza Mohammed Qadeer Baig tells in his own words the repercussions caused when the British left in 1947 and the horrors of Partition

In 1947, the United Kingdom was exhausted. World War II had ravaged its military and economy, and anti-colonial movements had begun to challenge empires. Within the Indian subcontinent, the U.K. faced two powerful, seemingly irreconcilable nationalist movements: one calling for the creation of Pakistan, a homeland for the Muslims of…

Author Andrew Lownie is trying to see letters and diaries left by Prince Philip's uncle Lord Mountbatten who was killed in IRA bomb attack

The eldest Cambridge child is set to turn nine later this month

In his early days the head of the British navy was a German prince named Louis Alexander of Battenberg. By Chris Hall

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's youngest child Prince Louis came into the world exactly four years ago today (April 23), and his name and title are mainly down to the Queen herself.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's youngest child Prince Louis came into the world exactly four years ago today - and his name and title are mainly down to his great-grandmother the Queen