KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

A s the 28th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death loomed last year, Prince Harry literally walked in her footsteps. Recreating the brave steps she took through an Angolan minefield, her younger son r

It was the summer of 1066 and two powerful leaders were rallying their supporters behind them and preparing for war. Their clash would result in political chaos, the spilling of much blood, and one of

Back in 2019, a Birmingam man scanned a Warwickshire field with a metal detector he’d purchased just six months previously. Near a drained pond, the machine alerted him to a miraculous discovery; a sp

The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside, says Eleanor Doughty