Despite monarchy being largely constitutional at the start of Queen Victoria’s ascension, her 63-year reign saw her preside over the abolition of slavery, the expansion of workers’ welfare, the speedy ...

"She was known as the social queen of Washington." Ridder was 20 years old when she attended her first Perle Mesta party. "She invited me to a party because she wanted press coverage," Ridder said.

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria ... In her fiction, Han Kang has probed at the seams of South Korea’s historic wounds.

The successors of the Tang SUV model and the Han saloon are all-electric models with an output of 500 kW in the rear-wheel drive versions and up to 810 kW with all-wheel drive. By comparison, the Han ...

That and a writing style that machine-guns aphorisms at a fully automatic rate (the perfect mode of thinking for the social media age, even if that age is one that Han frequently decries). It is ...

Not only was it the last occasion on which the Latin service was used, as throughout Plantagenet times, and with the Roman mass, but what happened on the occasion was a portent of the policy the new ...

11 following a flare-up of her atrial fibrillation while skiing Daniele Venturelli/WireImage Queen Sonja of Norway was hospitalized over the weekend following a ski-related incident. The monarch ...

"The Queen City has a new queen," a billboard in Buffalo reads Steve Granitz/FilmMagic ; Michael Reaves/Getty Hailee Steinfeld has a new title! The actress, 28, was crowned the "queen" of Queen ...

The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” From the daily newsletter: Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear ...

If only the queen were a man, she would make a great king, say her courtier brothers. Queen Won-gyeong is certainly smart and daring enough, they say within earshot of her husband. Unfortunately ...