Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prof David Cannadine edits the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - David Rose Aristocrats have more influence on society ...

A centuries-old British dynasty is facing a very modern American showdown. At the center of the drama is Henry Thynn, the 9-year-old son of Ceawlin Thynn, the 8th Marquess of Bath, and his wife, Emma, ...

What is it about the Mitfords? Even today, the sisters — born to minor British nobility, deprived of formal education, raised to marry well — have a surprisingly strong grip on transatlantic culture. ...

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World War I not only toppled empires and redrew borders—it remade the modern world, with few nations feeling the effects as profoundly as Great Britain. The country's deadliest war—from which 6 ...

The British royal family has always been a symbol of Nazi resistance. However, time and again, information from different sources has surfaced about the Windsors’ secret sympathy for the Nazi regime.

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...