Coronation signs and portents

It’s there beside the guildhall. A large grey stone surrounded by Victorian railings. Over the years, countless visitors to Kingston-upon-Thames have strolled past it, many barely registering its exis

King Charles joined actor Idris Elba and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday for a Youth Opportunity Summit at St James’s Palace to combat knife crime. In the past year the King’s Trust launche

The posthumous reputation of James VI and I

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

That threatened thrones

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by