Queen Elizabeth II's father never expected to take the throne—until a royal ruckus changed the monarchy forever. Our royal ...

King Charles recited some of Queen Elizabeth's diary entry from the iconic night she snuck out in London to celebrate VE Day in his speech on the 80th anniversary.

So that night an angry King George sat down to write again to Churchill ... George spoke bitterly of the way he'd been outfoxed. But the war's end was in sight, and their personal game of one ...

King George V foresaw the coming of aviation and ... with King Albert of Belgium into Brussels 11 days after the World War I armistice. Later his father presented him to the president of France ...

Echoing his grandfather, Charles delivered his address at 9pm – the exact time King George VI spoke to the nation in a radio broadcast on May 8 1945 to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Britain provided a convenient bolthole for many European monarchs as the Nazis marched across the continent... with some diplomatically ticklish consequences ...