Before Netflix's The Crown, Versailles, starring George Blagden as the Sun King Louis XIV, gave viewers a history lesson in ...

The 18th century often feels like a distant world of powdered wigs, candlelit salons, and horse-drawn carriages. But a recent Reddit post that went viral with more than 111 thousand upvotes and 2.9 ...

In a world determined to sideline her, Empress Matilda tested the medieval world's understanding of who could rule.

From Prisoner 951, a fact-based drama about the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the new edition of the BBC’s landmark ...

Sometimes Marietta connections turn up in unexpected places. My wife and I visited the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. The iconic ...

Designer Christian Cowan, costume shop owner Eric Winterling and more take Broadway News through the step-by-step process of making a gown for “The Queen of Versailles.” (L-R) Christian Cowan's sketch ...

Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the big, bright, magnetic pomp of the French monarchy at its peak. Behind the ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards.

King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday. The queen was dressed in white, as Vatican protocol allows for private audiences with the pope for queens of ...

Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and courtier who lived during the 16 th century. She is best remembered for being the mistress of Henry II, the King of France. This allowed Diane to wield ...