There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...

Professor Robert Bartlett: The story of England's longest reigning dynasty begins here in Anjou, Western France. In 1128 an enraged princess arrived here. Her name was Matilda and she was the only ...

The descendants of King Richard III have called for the monarch's recently discovered remains to be buried in York, as the row over their burial is threatening to develop into a drama of Shakespearean ...

The living descendants of Richard III have demanded his remains are reburied in York, setting his family at odds with those who sensationally located the grave of the last Plantagenet king. The ...

Professor Robert Bartlett: Henry III was nine years old when he became the fourth Plantagenet king of England. The French dynasty had ruled England and much of France for 50 years. But Henry's father, ...

THE High Court has ruled it is time for the remains of Richard III "to be given a dignified re-burial, and finally laid to rest" - in Leicester Cathedral. But a group formed by some of the king's ...

DESCENDANTS of the family of King Richard III are one step closer to having his remains returned to York. The Plantagenet Alliance has received notice from the High Court in London that a judicial ...