A Cumbrian estate is celebrating the legacy of one of its most distinguished former residents. Holker Hall and Gardens will be marking the birthday of Spencer Compton Cavendish, a towering political ...

Hidden deep on the Balmoral Estate, the summer residence of the Royal Family, the bewildering Balmoral cairns are slowly ...

Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a ...

Once the youngest Duke in Britain, Henry FitzRoy worked with the Rolling Stones before bringing country music to Suffolk ...

After contracting an ear infection and developing acute meningitis, Oscar Wilde died penniless in Paris. Despite only writing ...

The framers of the United States Constitution intended to wrest the newly formed nation from the yoke of the British Empire wherein immutable authority was vested in a monarch.

While her fashion choices often make headlines, less visible - but equally influential - is the close-knit circle of ...

You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and it makes you wonder if anything will ever really change. It feels like an elaborate metaphor for the state of this ...

Lord Henry Mount Charles, scion of one of Ireland’s foremost aristocratic families, turned the imposing family seat Slane Castle in Co Meath into the country’s best-known outdoor rock venue.

The pub is affectionately known as "The Chum" - in reference to the way the name of the village of Cholmondeley is actually ...