Discover the evolving traditions of royal and presidential portraiture in the UK, US, and India. From King Charles III’s ...

Left: Portrait assumed to be Sir Rafe Sadler, court of King Henry VIII ... With Cromwell gone, he returned to Henry VIII’s good graces. But under Edward VI, he refused to support the Protestant ...

Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

No English king or queen has suffered more from retrospective caricature than Henry VIII, alternatively tyrant–murderer ... dwells for several pages on Holbein’s portrait of the one-year-old Prince ...

Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, died at the age of 89. She played a notorious role in ...

King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, causing a royal scandal and altering the monarchy forever. Nearly a century later, Prince Harry and ...

whose 325-day reign as King Edward VIII had ended abruptly five months before when he fled the country leaving behind a throne, an empire and a shocked nation. Despite warning-bells ringing for ...

Prince Edward represented the British royal family as he attended Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass in St. Peter's Square in ...

The King and Queen unveiled the artwork by Peter Kuhfeld and Paul S. Benney during a visit to The National Gallery in London ...

The wife of the former king, Edward VIII, spent her final years as a “prisoner” in her “slum” of a bedroom. Wallis Simpson was an American socialite who met the then-Prince of Wales ...

1620 likeness of James VI & I; another image by Van Dyck, at Windsor Castle, was likely conceived as Charles I’s official state portrait. Since the coronation of King Edward VII, in 1902 ...

Upon the death of King George, Prince Edward immediately became King Edward VIII. As king, Edward VIII was Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which at the time did not allow the remarriage ...