Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for her hand for many years and, even as a married man, sparked endless gossip in court with the endless attention that he lavished upon the Queen.
Ironically, however, it was the death of his wife which removed any hope that Elizabeth may have private cherished of one day marrying him. Found with a broken neck at the bottom of her stairs, was Amy murdered by a husband who harboured royal ambition?
In January 1327 Edward II was forced to abdicate his throne in favour of his 14 year old son Edward III and was then incarcerated at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. He died there 6 months later possibly in the most gruesome of manners.
A hidden grave tucked away in a corner of a cemetery in Kent could hold the key to one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. What is the truth behind the story of the ill-fated last Tsar of Russia and his immediate family?
In July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was marched into a cellar and shot by a Bolshevik firing squad. His family, his wife, his son and his four daughters were executed with him.
However the mystery of Anastasia has remained. The youngest of his daughters is believed by some to have escaped a...
