King George had clearly harboured suspicions against his brother for a while. During the so-called 'Phoney War' of 1939 - the eight-month period between war being declared and fighting beginning ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

Their beef was not with all kings and queens but with King George III – and him only as ... and the first French ships and soldiers did not enter the war until June 1778. Abolitionists and ...

Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops already in America in crushing the rebellion. The Revolutionary War lasted ...

News of the death of king George VI spread swiftly around the world today. New ruler weeps at news of king's death NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP) -- Britain's sovereign queen began her reign ...

The greatest challenge of George V's reign came with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The King and Queen worked tirelessly throughout, and when the war had ended the King supported ...

Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December 1895 on the Sandringham estate. On the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in December ...