The French royal namesakes of our city and state — Philippe II, the Duke of Orleans, and King Louis XV — never set foot in what would become New Orleans or Louisiana. But a great-grandson of ...

King Charles has declared that one of Queen Victoria’s longheld wishes has been fulfilled in a landmark speech at State ...

THE ENIGMAS OF HISTORY --- PHILIPPE EGALITE; Mystery Surrounding Parentage of French King Revived by Facts Collected by Maurice Vitrac. Theory That an Ancestor of the House of Orleans Was a ...

Giant wigs were a must-have for any man in the court of Louis XIV. The king’s absolute love for big hair sparked a trend that spread all over 17th-century Europe.

Louis XV, also known as Louis the Beloved, ruled as King of France for 59 years, from 1715, when he succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five, to his death in 1774.