History was made on Wednesday as the King met with the first-ever female Archbishop of Canterbury ahead of her installation at Canterbury Cathedral next month. Charles welcomed The Most Reverend and R

→ When John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set in 1926, a theatre impresario was so worried about the impact on the West End that he offered the scientist £1,000 to throw his de

The King and Queen have been enjoying some holiday time in Scotland, but all the Palace talk is of a spring tour to the USA. After the welcome announcement late last year that His Majesty could scale

In spring 1953, Britain was looking forward. After the trauma of the war and its aftermath, people were no longer focused simply on surviving. Thanks in part to the postwar settlement and welfare stat

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As Valentine’s Day approaches, we look at some of the Firm’s fairytale endings