Queen Victoria

Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? By Troy Bickham Strapping a fir tree to the hood of my car and worrying...

Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac, former bodyguards for the British royal family, have recently released a book called The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana. The book chronicles the fraught relationship between the royal family and...

Cypriots by all accounts are a resilient people and yet, one wonders why this small island has never enjoyed peace. Disraeli, the first Jewish minister of Britain, described Cyprus to Queen Victoria in 1878 as, "This jewel of the...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has reiterated that England will keep the stolen Parthenon Marbles plundered from the Acropolis nearly 200 years ago by a British diplomat because he doesn’t believe in “returnism.” Cameron cited the marbles, stolen goods sold...