An exquisite work of art in the form of a rare Fabergé cigarette case, has been gifted to The Wildlife Trusts as part of a ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

The egg, lost since 1903 and historically significant, was an Easter gift from Emperor Alexander III to Empress Marie Feodorovna in 1887 and was confirmed authentic by an expert. The egg had been ...

Queen Camilla opted for a sentimental brooch as she attended the Commonwealth Day Reception at Marlborough House. The royal was beaming as she joined King Charles to meet with guests for the annual ...

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

When Russia formed a military alliance with Sweden, the king of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa, declared war ... was very unpopular among Russians but Tsar Alexander I of Russia had no option but ...

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great ... powerful and influential rulers of all time. Ashoka, the third ...

In a growing collection of textbooks spine surgeons will encounter through their careers, some stand out as "must reads" within the field.

De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...