Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of Germany. His delicate ego, intense jealousies, and unpredictable temper led straight to the calamitous events of WWI and the fall of the House of Hohenzollern ...

18:19, Tue, Apr 22, 2025 Updated: 18:52, Tue, Apr 22, 2025 Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the ...

Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1908–1961), the last Maharaja of Indore, led a life full of contrasts and contradictions. As a child, he dreamed of joining the British Royal Navy, an ambition that would have ...

Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir ...

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King Charles III and Queen Victoria are more closely related than you might realise. You won’t be surprised to learn Charles is directly descended from Victoria, his great-great-great-grandmother. But ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II (public domain on Wikimedia Commons) and Tsar Nicholas II (public domain on Wikimedia Commons) In the year 1918, just after the end of World War I, American journalist, writer, and ...

Hate mail that patriotic Brits sent to the hated Kaiser Wilhem II during the First World War has been discovered a century later. Despite being the grandson of Queen Victoria, the German king was ...

They are the royals who were kept at arm's length, albeit for starkly different reasons. Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, severely disabled cousins of the late Queen, were cared for in an asylum and ...