four-year-old Louis-Charles became the dauphin. (There were, however, rumors at the time that he was the son of his mother’s close friend Axel von Fersen, not King Louis XVI.) At any other time ...

The royal heart has been carted around Europe in a jar A royal funeral has been held in France for the co-called "lost Dauphin", the son of the beheaded king Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette. A ...

Shortly after the death Thursday of Queen Elizabeth II, a royal announcement said her heir, her eldest son Charles, would be known as King Charles III. He spoke as monarch for the first time ...